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. 1989 Apr;82(4):210–214. doi: 10.1177/014107688908200410

Thirty years of electronic intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring: discussion paper.

H M Jenkins 1
PMCID: PMC1292086  PMID: 2654395

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