Are operative delivery procedures in greece socially conditioned?

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 159-165

  Skalkidis, Yannis ^a   Petridou, Eleni ^a,b   Papathoma, Eugenia ^a   Revinthi, Katharine ^a   Tong, Donald ^b   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Caesarean section; Operative vaginal delivery; Public vs. Private hospital delivery; Risk factors; Time trends

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FORCEPS DELIVERY; GREECE; HUMAN; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STATISTICS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EXTRACTION, OBSTETRICAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 0030119304     PISSN: 13534505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/8.2.159     Document Type: Article

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