Obstetric complications during labor and delivery: Assessing ethnic differences in California

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 189-197

  Guendelman, Sylvia ^a   Thornton, Dorothy ^a   Gould, Jeffrey ^b   Hosang, Nap ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LABOR; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MATERNAL WELFARE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33747202832     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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