Estimating the proportion of unnecessary cesarean sections in Ohio using birth certificate data

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1327-1334

  Koroukian, Siran M ^a   Trisel, Brooke ^b   Rimm, Alfred A ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bureau of Medicaid Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth certificate data; Complications of labor and delivery; Maternal medical risk factors; Primary C sections; Repeat C sections; Unnecessary C sections

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CESAREAN SECTION; DATA BASE; HUMAN; LABOR COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIRTH CERTIFICATES; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CESAREAN SECTION, REPEAT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEDICAID; OHIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 0032433432     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(98)00125-5     Document Type: Article

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