The clinical performance of the M4 decision support model to triage women with a pregnancy of unknown location as at low or high risk of complications.

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Published in Hum Reprod on May 10, 2016

Authors

S Bobdiwala1, S Guha2, B Van Calster3, F Ayim4, N Mitchell-Jones5, M Al-Memar1, H Mitchell4, C Stalder1, C Bottomley5, A Kothari4, D Timmerman6, T Bourne7

Author Affiliations

1: Tommy's National Early Miscarriage Research Centre, Queen Charlottes & Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, UK.
2: Tommy's National Early Miscarriage Research Centre, Queen Charlottes & Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, UK West Middlesex University Hospital, Twickenham Road, Isleworth, London TW7 6AF, UK.
3: Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49 Box 7003, Leuven B-3000, Belgium.
4: Hillingdon Hospital, Pield Heath Road, Uxbridge UB8 3NN, UK.
5: Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, 329 Fulham Road, London SW10 9NH, UK.
6: Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49 Box 7003, Leuven B-3000, Belgium Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, KU Leuven, Belgium.
7: Tommy's National Early Miscarriage Research Centre, Queen Charlottes & Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College, Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, UK Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49 Box 7003, Leuven B-3000, Belgium Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, KU Leuven, Belgium t.bourne@imperial.ac.uk.

Associated clinical trials:

Management of Pregnancies of Unknown Location (PUL) | NCT03461835

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