Midwifery triage of first trimester bleeding

Journal of Nurse-Midwifery

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 537-548

  Krause, Susan A ^a,b   Graves, Barbara W ^a,b  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b College of Nurse Midwives ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CURETTAGE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDWIFE; NURSING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UTERUS BLEEDING;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; DILATATION AND CURETTAGE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDWIFERY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; TRIAGE; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0033217056     PISSN: 00912182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-2182(99)00107-X     Document Type: Review

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