Effect of managed care enrollment on primary and repeat cesarean rates among U.S. Department of Defense health care beneficiaries in military and civilian hospitals worldwide, 1999-2002

Birth

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 254-264

  Linton, Andrea ^a   Peterson, Michael R ^a,b  

^a Center for Health Care Management Studies   (United States)

^b HPA and E   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; ADULT; HEALTH; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; LABOR COMPLICATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PREGNANCY; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREGNANCY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 16644362277     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0730-7659.2004.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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