Task: Answer Verification
Input (English): Question: Does the external Ballard examination accurately assess the gestational age of infants born at home in a rural community of The Gambia?
Answer: In this rural, community-born population of infants, postnatal assessment of gestational age by external Ballard examination performed poorly compared with ultrasound and last menstrual period. No reliable gestational age could be derived from its estimate and it failed to detect a significant proportion of high-risk infants. The development of an accurate but simple method of postnatally assessing gestational age specifically for use by health workers in rural Africa is required.
Output (English): no