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The authors' work has been supported by GM64640; American Heart Association, Mid-Atlantic Consortium; Children's Medical Center Research Fund, University of Virginia; W.S. Paley Foundation; Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology; Medical Decision Networks, Charlottesville, VA.
Potential for conflict of interest: Medical Decision Networks of Charlottesville, VA, which supplied partial funding for this study has a license to market technology related to heart rate characteristics (HRC) monitoring of newborn infants. As of the submission date of the final version of the article, none of the authors had received consultants fees or owned equity in Medical Decision Networks or related companies. However, Drs. Griffin and Moorman have been offered an equity share of a new company, Medical Predictive Science Corporation that owns the HRC technology license.
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Lake, D., Griffin, M. & Moorman, J. New Mathematical Thinking About Fetal Heart Rate Characteristics: Commentary on the article by Yum and Kim on page 915. Pediatr Res 53, 889–890 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1203/01.PDR.0000064907.53534.90
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