Toward Lower Cesarean Birth Rates and Effective Care: Five Years' Outcomes of Joint Private Obstetric Practice

Birth

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 181-187

  Schimmel, Lynn M ^a,c   Schimmel, Leon D ^a   DeJoseph, Jeanne ^b  

^a Sutter West Medical Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NURSE MIDWIFE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0031228543     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1997.00181.pp.x     Document Type: Article

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