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Gestational Age Report

A NAPHSIS committee reviewed papers published on the issue of the definition of gestational age and has released their report which can be downloaded here: NAPHSIS Recommendations on Measuring and Improving Quality of Gestational Age Data 

The papers referenced in this report are available here:

United States vital statistics and the measurement of gestational age, Joyce Martin, National Center for Health Statistics

Gestational Age - Not Always What It Seems, Mark Klebanoff, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development