13.12.2018 | COMMENTARY
The Apgar paradox
Erschienen in: European Journal of Epidemiology | Ausgabe 2/2019
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Most of today’s readers of this journal will have received an Apgar score 1 and 5 min after birth. The measure was introduced by Virginia Apgar, an anesthesiologist, in 1952; and, since the 1960s, it is popular world-wide. The Apgar score is now ubiquitously used in newborns and arguably the most common composite screening instrument in medicine and only a few single measure screening procedures such as growth curves, glucose levels or blood pressure are more frequently employed. …Anzeige