Early access to prenatal care: Implications for racial disparity in perinatal mortality

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 625-631

  Healy, Andrew J ^a   Malone, Fergal D ^b   Sullivan, Lisa M ^b   Porter, T Flint ^b   Luthy, David A ^b   Comstock, Christine H ^b   Saade, George ^b   Berkowitz, Richard ^b   Klugman, Susan ^b   Dugoff, Lorraine ^b   Craigo, Sabrina D ^b   Timor Tritsch, Ilan ^b   Carr, Stephen R ^b   Wolfe, Honor M ^b   Bianchi, Diana W ^b   D'Alton, Mary E ^b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CESAREAN SECTION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VAGINA BLEEDING;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; FEMALE; FETAL MORTALITY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646763533     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000201978.83607.96     Document Type: Review

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