Assessing the performance of growth charts: A difficult endeavour

Roger Bessis¹, Ferdinand Dhombres^{1

2

3}, Coralie Dumont^{1

4}, Nicolas Fries¹, Georges Haddad^{1

5}, Mona Massoud^{1

6

7}, Julien Stirnemann^{1

8

9}, Laurent Julien Salomon^{1

8

9}; French College of Fetal Ultrasound (CFEF)

Affiliations

¹ College Français d'Echographie Foetale, CFEF, Paris, France.
² Sorbonne University, Armand Trousseau University hospital, Fetal Medicine department, GRC-26, APHP, Paris, France.
³ INSERM, Laboratory in Medical Informatics and Knowledge Engineering in e-Health (LIMICS), Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
⁴ Fetal Medicine department, University Hospital of South Reunion Island, BP 350 - 97448 Saint Pierre Cedex, Saint Pierre, Reunion.
⁵ Simone VEIL Hospital, Blois, France.
⁶ Fetal Medecine unit, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfants, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
⁷ FLUID Team, Lyon Neurosciences Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon-1 University, Bron, France.
⁸ Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, APHP, Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades, Paris, France.
⁹ EA FETUS 7328 and LUMIERE Platform, Université de Paris Cité, Paris, France.

Comment

Roger Bessis et al. BJOG. 2022 Jul.

. 2022 Jul;129(8):1234-1235.

doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.17143. Epub 2022 Mar 22.

¹ College Français d'Echographie Foetale, CFEF, Paris, France.
² Sorbonne University, Armand Trousseau University hospital, Fetal Medicine department, GRC-26, APHP, Paris, France.
³ INSERM, Laboratory in Medical Informatics and Knowledge Engineering in e-Health (LIMICS), Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
⁴ Fetal Medicine department, University Hospital of South Reunion Island, BP 350 - 97448 Saint Pierre Cedex, Saint Pierre, Reunion.
⁵ Simone VEIL Hospital, Blois, France.
⁶ Fetal Medecine unit, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfants, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
⁷ FLUID Team, Lyon Neurosciences Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon-1 University, Bron, France.
⁸ Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, APHP, Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades, Paris, France.
⁹ EA FETUS 7328 and LUMIERE Platform, Université de Paris Cité, Paris, France.

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Comparison of the performance of estimated fetal weight charts for the detection of small- and large-for-gestational age newborns with adverse outcomes: a French population-based study.
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