Managing labor using partograms with different action lines: A prospective study of women's views

Birth

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-96

  Lavender, Tina ^a   Wallymahmed, Akhtar H ^b   Walkinshaw, Stephen A ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DYSTOCIA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTHER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TIME; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING;

ADULT; CERVICAL RIPENING; CESAREAN SECTION; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DYSTOCIA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033138858     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-536x.1999.00089.x     Document Type: Article

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