Efficacy and risk for birth outcomes

This editor shows the risk factors and the efficacy of a range of interventions on birth outcomes.

Low Birth Weight Coversion Factors

•Definition: Calculation of percentage of total births that are low birth weight (LBW) based on region-specific pooled proportions of LBW births in each birth outcome category.

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•Effect size reference: Kozuki N, Katz J, Clermont A, Walker N and the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group SGA-Preterm Birth Working Group. New Option in the Lives Saved Tool (LiST) Allows for the Conversion of Prevalence of Small-for-Gestational-Age and Preterm Births to Prevalence of Low Birth Weight: A Delphi approach. BMC Public Health 2013; 13(Suppl 3): S12. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3847442/.