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 |
| author2 | The Royal College of Ostetricians and Gynaecologists |
| author_facet | The Royal College of Ostetricians and Gynaecologists 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:6d58e144-b6e1-442d-973d-d02c35cc57472022-03-26T19:17:14ZMalaria in pregnancy: the difficulties in measuring birthweightJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:6d58e144-b6e1-442d-973d-d02c35cc5747VaccinologyObstetricsMalariaTropical medicineEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetWiley2011Rijken, MRijken, JPapageorghiou, AKennedy, SVisser, GNosten, FMcGready, RThe Royal College of Ostetricians and GynaecologistsRecommendations 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 | Vaccinology Obstetrics Malaria Tropical medicine 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 |
| topic | Vaccinology Obstetrics Malaria Tropical medicine |
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