Morning compared with evening induction of labor: A nested randomized controlled trial

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 350-360

  Dodd, Jodie M ^a   Crowther, Caroline A ^a   Robinson, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL; OXYTOCIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; FLUSHING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERPYREXIA; LABOR INDUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NEWBORN DEATH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNDERWEIGHT; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VOMITING;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, INDUCED; MISOPROSTOL; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OXYTOCICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTAGLANDINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748106464     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000227746.35565.d9     Document Type: Article

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