Costs of Postpartum Care: Examining Associations from the Ontario Mother and Infant Survey

Canadian Journal of Nursing Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 19-34

  Roberts, Jacqueline ^a   Sword, Wendy ^a   Watt, Susan ^a   Gafni, Amiram ^c   Krueger, Paul ^c   Sheehan, Deborah ^a   Soon Lee, Kyong ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Social and Pub Hlth Serv Division ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFTERCARE; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCOME; LENGTH OF STAY; MOTHER; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN; NURSING ASSESSMENT; POSTNATAL CARE; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AFTERCARE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; MOTHERS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ONTARIO; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTNATAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0035383120     PISSN: 08445621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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