Admission cardiotocography: A randomised controlled trial

Lancet

Volumn 361, Issue 9356, 2003, Pages 465-470

  Impey, Lawrence ^a,b   Reynolds, Margaret ^b   MacQuillan, Kathryn ^b   Gates, Simon ^c   Murphy, John ^b   Sheil, Orla ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS MONITORING; HEART AUSCULTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNITY WARD; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037425741     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12464-6     Document Type: Article

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