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The reliability of a newborn foot length measurement tool used by community volunteers to identify low birth weight or premature babies born at home in southern Tanzania

BACKGROUND: Low birthweight babies need extra care, and families need to know whether their newborn is low birthweight in settings where many births are at home and weighing scales are largely absent. In the context of a trial to improve newborn health in southern Tanzania, a counselling card was de...

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Autores principales: Marchant, Tanya, Penfold, Suzanne, Mkumbo, Elibariki, Shamba, Donat, Jaribu, Jennie, Manzi, Fatuma, Schellenberg, Joanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4152587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25142865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-859