Does delivery volume of family physicians predict maternal and newborn outcome?

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 166, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1257-1263

  Klein, Michael C ^a   Spence, Andrea ^a   Kaczorowski, Janusz ^a   Kelly, Ann ^a   Grzybowski, Stefan ^a  

^a CHILDREN S AND WOMEN S HEALTH CENTRE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; ETHNOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MONITORING; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; SINGLE PARENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

EID: 0036091596     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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