Malaria in pregnancy: the difficulties in measuring birthweight.
Recommendations for interventions to control malaria in pregnancy are often based on studies using birthweight as the primary endpoint. Differences in birthweight may be attributable partly to methodological difficulties. We performed a structured search of the literature using 'malaria',...
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| author | Rijken, M Rijken, J Papageorghiou, A Kennedy, S Visser, G Nosten, F Mcgready, R |
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| description | Recommendations for interventions to control malaria in pregnancy are often based on studies using birthweight as the primary endpoint. Differences in birthweight may be attributable partly to methodological difficulties. We performed a structured search of the literature using 'malaria', 'pregnancy' and 'birth weight' as search terms. Of the clinical trials reporting birthweight, only 33% (14/43) gave information about the timing of the measurement and details on the scales used. Seventy seven per cent explained how gestational age was estimated. We propose a standardised method for the measurement and reporting of birthweight in future studies. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:01881af6-807f-4c80-9ded-da23e1b6ee1e2022-03-26T08:35:36ZMalaria in pregnancy: the difficulties in measuring birthweight.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:01881af6-807f-4c80-9ded-da23e1b6ee1eEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2011Rijken, MRijken, JPapageorghiou, AKennedy, SVisser, GNosten, FMcgready, RRecommendations for interventions to control malaria in pregnancy are often based on studies using birthweight as the primary endpoint. Differences in birthweight may be attributable partly to methodological difficulties. We performed a structured search of the literature using 'malaria', 'pregnancy' and 'birth weight' as search terms. Of the clinical trials reporting birthweight, only 33% (14/43) gave information about the timing of the measurement and details on the scales used. Seventy seven per cent explained how gestational age was estimated. We propose a standardised method for the measurement and reporting of birthweight in future studies. |
| spellingShingle | Rijken, M Rijken, J Papageorghiou, A Kennedy, S Visser, G Nosten, F Mcgready, R Malaria in pregnancy: the difficulties in measuring birthweight. |
| title | Malaria in pregnancy: the difficulties in measuring birthweight. |
| title_full | Malaria in pregnancy: the difficulties in measuring birthweight. |
| title_fullStr | Malaria in pregnancy: the difficulties in measuring birthweight. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Malaria in pregnancy: the difficulties in measuring birthweight. |
| title_short | Malaria in pregnancy: the difficulties in measuring birthweight. |
| title_sort | malaria in pregnancy the difficulties in measuring birthweight |
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