Perineal outcomes in a home birth setting

Birth

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 226-234

  Murphy, Patricia Aikins ^a,c   Feinland, Julie Baker ^b  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b Hampshire Obstetrical Gynecol A   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; INJURY; LABOR COMPLICATION; METHODOLOGY; NURSE MIDWIFE; NURSING; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032239031     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-536x.1998.00226.x     Document Type: Article

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