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ANTENATAL IDENTIFICATION OF WOMEN AT HIGH RISK OF SPONTANEOUS PRE‐TERM BIRTH
Author(s) -
Fedrick Jean
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1976.tb00841.x
Subject(s) - term (time) , medicine , identification (biology) , full term , obstetrics , relative risk , pregnancy , physics , confidence interval , botany , genetics , quantum mechanics , biology
Summary A means of assessing the risk of a spontaneous pre‐term birth in any individual woman presenting at the antenatal clinic is described. A composite score can be obtained by the multiplication of relative risks for various factors. The effectiveness of the method is discussed.