Klimek's method of fetal maturity assessment offers a possibility of objective evaluation of maturity immediately after birth. The clinical methods used to date do not have such advantages. Moreover, they require the evaluation of 12-34 parameters, their point range is more complex and their results are given on the scale of 10-50 points. In each of the applied divisions of observed newborns, there was found a high, statistically significant correlation between the indexes evaluating maturity by means of both comparable methods (i.e. Ballard and Klimek scores), which do not take into account weight and fetal age, but refer directly to fetal maturity. The new scale, which has been proposed, is simple and produces comparable results encompassing full maturity in the range of only 6-12 points.
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