Factors influencing the selection of analgesia in spontaneously labouring nulliparous women at term

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 289-293

  Dickinson, Jan E ^a   Godfrey, Maryellen ^a   Evans, Sharon F ^a   Newnham, John P ^a  

^a KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; LABOR; NORMAL HUMAN; NULLIPARA; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

EID: 0030753934     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.1997.tb02411.x     Document Type: Article

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