Use of a focussed teen prenatal clinic at a military teaching hospital: Model for improved outcomes of unmarried mothers

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 280-283

  Perez, Romeo ^a   Patience, Troy ^a   Pulous, Elizabeth ^a   Brown, Gwen ^a   McEwen, Ann ^a   Asato, Amy ^a   Hume, Roderick ^a   Calhoun, Byron C ^a,b  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Amer Coll Obstetricians G   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FORCEPS DELIVERY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NEWBORN DEATH; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; STILLBIRTH; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0031687796     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.1998.tb03066.x     Document Type: Article

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