Where are the Sunday babies? Observations on a marked decline in weekend births in Germany

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 592-594

  Lerchl, Alexander ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DATE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMANY; HOSPITAL FINANCE; HUMAN; LABOR; NEWBORN;

BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, INDUCED; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 28344442301     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-005-0049-y     Document Type: Article

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