A New and Improved Population-Based Canadian Reference for Birth Weight for Gestational Age

S. Kramer, Michael; W. Platt, Robert; Wu Wen, Shi; Joseph, K.S.; C. Allen, Alexander; Abrahamowicz, Michał; Blondel, Béatrice; Bréart, Gérard; the Fetal/Infant Health Study Group of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System, for

doi:10.1542/peds.108.2.e35

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A New and Improved Population-Based Canadian Reference for Birth Weight for Gestational Age

Published in PEDIATRICS • Aug 1, 2001

Authors:

Michael S. Kramer

Robert W. Platt

Shi Wu Wen

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Existing fetal growth references all suffer from 1 or more major methodologic problems, including errors in reported gestational age, biologically implausible birth weight for gestational age, insufficient sample sizes at low gestational age, single-hospital or other non-population-based...

Subject

Gestational age

Medicine

Percentile

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