Randomised controlled trial of labouring in water compared with standard of augmentation for management of dystocia in first stage of labour

British Medical Journal

Volumn 328, Issue 7435, 2004, Pages 314-318

  Cluett, Elizabeth R ^a   Pickering, Ruth M ^b   Getliffe, Kathryn ^a   Saunders, Nigel James St George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

AMNIOTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTOCIA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; LABOR; LABOR COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NULLIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

EID: 1042267959     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.37963.606412.ee     Document Type: Article

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