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The pitfalls of using birthweight centile charts to audit care

OBJECTIVES: Timely delivery of fetal growth restriction (FGR) is important in reducing stillbirth. However, targeted earlier delivery of FGR preferentially removes smaller babies from later gestations, thereby right-shifting the distribution of birthweights at term. This artificially increases the b...

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Autores principales: Selvaratnam, Roshan John, Davey, Mary-Ann, Wallace, Euan Morrison
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32574213
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235113