The reliability of a newborn foot length measurement tool used by community volunteers to identify low birth weight or premature babies born at home in southern Tanzania
Open Access
- 20 August 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 14 (1), 1-6
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-859
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