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Estimation of proteinuria as a predictor of complications of pre-eclampsia: a systematic review

Shakila Thangaratinam1*, Arri Coomarasamy1, Fidelma O'Mahony2, Steve Sharp3, Javier Zamora4, Khalid S Khan1 and Khaled MK Ismail2

Author Affiliations

1 Academic Unit of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Birmingham, B15 2TG, UK

2 Academic Unit of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Keele University School of Medicine, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

3 NLH Specialist Library for ENT and Audiology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

4 Clinical Biostatistics Unit, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Department of Biomathematics, University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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BMC Medicine 2009, 7:10 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-7-10

Published: 24 March 2009

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Search term combinations for identification of studies predicting complications of pre eclampsia.

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Study characteristics of the trials included in the systematic review of accuracy of proteinuria in predicting complications in women with pre-eclampsia.

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