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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...
Autores principales: | Marchant, Tanya, Penfold, Suzanne, Mkumbo, Elibariki, Shamba, Donat, Jaribu, Jennie, Manzi, Fatuma, Schellenberg, Joanna |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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