title: Post-term pregnancy.
abstract: Prospective gestational age assessment using clinical and technical based data avoids unnecessary patient and physician apprehension, iatrogenic risk and expense. Careful antepartum and intrapartum monitoring of fetal condition is required to avoid excessive morbidity and mortality in those patients whose unfavorable cervical condition disallows the safe induction of labor beyond 41 weeks of gestation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Hobart
mesh_terms: D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D005323:Fetal Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D007224:Infant Care; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011273:Pregnancy, Prolonged / Q000502:physiology; D011295:Prenatal Care; D012307:Risk Factors