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Original Article

Professionals' views of fetal-monitoring support the development of devices to provide objective longer-term assessment of fetal wellbeing

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Pages 1680-1686 | Received 14 Feb 2015, Accepted 04 Jun 2015, Published online: 27 Jul 2015

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