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We did not have access to accurate birthweight records so this parameter could not be studied.
Birthweight records were considered invalid if they were less than 500 g or more than 5500 g.
32 Birth weight, obtained either from birthweight records from hospital ledgers (n=1178) or recalled (n=673) birth weight from offspring in the questionnaire, was available for 793 male and 1058 female offspring who were analysed as subsets.
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The sample for the health card analyses comprised of all 3227 children that had their birthweight recorded on a health card, while the sample for the maternal recall analysis comprised of all 16 787 children that had their birthweight recorded based on maternal self-report (Table 1).
Efforts to improve birthweight recording and gestational age assessment are integral to the scale-up and measurement of more precise indicators for KMC.
A restricted birthweight dataset was constructed that excluded women who had any of the following indicators of a possibly poorly measured birthweight: noninstitutional birth, birth attendant other than a physician, and a birthweight recorded only in pounds.
In addition to using birth records to decrease misclassification, we performed a separate birthweight analysis for the subset of women who were delivered by physicians in hospitals or doctors' clinics and had their birthweight recorded in pounds and ounces.
African-American women were more likely than white women to have been born at home, were less likely to have been delivered by a physician at home, and were less likely to have had a birthweight recorded in pounds and ounces under any birth circumstances.
Gestational age was routinely reported only in weeks (and not in weeks+days) with median values clustering around 36 with no variability; and birthweight recording showed excessive rounding-off to a few select values in multiples of 0.25 kg between 2.00 and 3.50 kg.
Previous studies have reported a poor degree of correspondence between birthweights recorded in official records and self-reported birthweights [ 62].
Information of 11 006 live births from BOGH in 2010 was used to examine factors related to birthweight, because records from BOGH in 2010 had complete maternal information for the analysis of related factors.
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