Swedish women's interest in home birth and in-hospital birth center care

Birth

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-22

  Hildingsson, Ingegerd ^a,b,c   Waldenström, Ulla ^b   Rådestad, Ingela ^a  

^a MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HOME DELIVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY ROOMS; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN;

EID: 0345269226     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-536X.2003.00212.x     Document Type: Article

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