Low accuracy found for tests used to predict risk of spontaneous preterm birth for women who have not given birth before
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Published in JAMA · View the paper (DOI)
A study of 9,410 women without prior childbirth found that fetal fibronectin levels and transvaginal cervical length had poor predictive performance for spontaneous preterm birth. These tests are often used to identify women at risk of preterm birth, but their accuracy is lower than expected.
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- Low accuracy found for tests used to predict risk of spontaneous preterm birth for women who have not given birth before JAMA Network · Mar 14, 2017 · first to report
- Common tests for preterm birth not useful for routine screening of first-time pregnancies NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · Mar 14, 2017
- Two common tests aren't effective in predicting premature births, says new national study University of Utah Health · Mar 14, 2017