Perinatal and health care management consequences of twice-a-day versus once-a-day evaluation of home uterine activity monitoring data

Journal of Health Care Finance

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 15-21

  Beckmann, Claudia A ^a   Beckmann, Charles R B ^b,c   Stanziano, Gary J ^d   Bergauer, Niki K ^e   Martin, Chester B ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Med Aff Healthdyne Matern Mgmt   (United States)

^e Spec Projects Healthdyne Matern M   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care costs; Home uterine activity monitoring; Obstetrics; Perinatal morbidity and mortality; Preterm labor and delivery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOME MONITORING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PREMATURE LABOR; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MINNESOTA; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE MONITORING; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0029738233     PISSN: 10786767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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