title: Comparison between subjective and ultrasound assessments of fetal movement.
abstract: Forty pregnant women participated in a study to compare subjective with ultrasound assessments of fetal movements. A real-time ultrasound scanner was used. Movements were recorded for 45 minutes in all cases. There was a significant positive correlation between the number of movements recorded by the two methods, but the 95% confidence limits were wide and no correlation was found in those patients who recorded fewer than 20 movements in the study period. Thus "false-positive" information may be obtained from purely subjective data, and in patients reporting low "kick counts" fetal activity should be assessed from real-time ultrasound recordings.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement; D011247:Pregnancy; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014463:Ultrasonography