Safety of birth centre care: Perinatal mortality over a 10-year period

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-78

  Gottvall, Karin ^a   Grunewald, Charlotta ^a   Waldenström, Ulla ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PERINATAL DEATH; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY;

ADULT; BIRTHING CENTERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MATERNAL AGE; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; SWEDEN;

EID: 1242306741     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-0528.2003.00017.x     Document Type: Article

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