ULTRASOUND FETAL WEIGHT ESTIMATION - PRECISION OR GUESS WORK

Authors
ROGERS MS CHUNG TKH CHANG AMZ
Citation
Ms. Rogers et al., ULTRASOUND FETAL WEIGHT ESTIMATION - PRECISION OR GUESS WORK, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 33(2), 1993, pp. 142-144
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Obsetric & Gynecology
Journal title
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00048666
Volume
33
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
142 - 144
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-8666(1993)33:2<142:UFWE-P>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
We compared the prediction of birth-weight based on factors shown by e pidemiological studies to influence it with the performance of 2 clini cal examples of ultrasonic fetal weight estimation reported in the lit erature. The standardized absolute error of the 2 examples of ultrason ic fetal weight estimation was similar to estimation by multiple regre ssion of birth-weight on maternal age, parity, height and weight in 11 ,516 Chinese mothers. This severely limits the clinical utility of the estimation derived from these ultrasonic measurements.