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Reported a controlled trial in mothers at risk of premature delivery testing antenatal betamethasone and measuring neonatal respiratory distress and mortality outcomes.
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The record is the exact two-author 1972 Pediatrics trial report. It does not erase the authors' call for further trials, absorb later meta-analyses and guidelines or claim universal benefit across all gestations and regimens.
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Graham C. Liggins; Ross N. Howie
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Liggins and Howie: controlled trial of antepartum glucocorticoid treatment
Reported a controlled trial in mothers at risk of premature delivery testing antenatal betamethasone and measuring neonatal respiratory distress and mortality outcomes.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact two-author 1972 Pediatrics trial report. It does not erase the authors' call for further trials, absorb later meta-analyses and guidelines or claim universal benefit across all gestations and regimens.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Graham C. Liggins; Ross N. Howie
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.