Field trials of the Baby Check score card: mothers scoring their babies at home.

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Published in Arch Dis Child on January 01, 1991

Authors

A J Thornton1, C J Morley, S J Green, T J Cole, K A Walker, J M Bonnett

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge.

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