Racial-ethnic differences in prenatal diagnostic test use and outcomes: Preferences, socioeconomics, or patient knowledge?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 675-682

  Kuppermann, Miriam ^a   Gates, Elena ^a   Washington, A Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BIRTH RATE; CAUCASIAN; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0029932256     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0029-7844(96)00017-8     Document Type: Article

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