Associated factors and outcomes of persistent occiput posterior position: A retrospective cohort study from 1976 to 2001

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 563-568

  Cheng, Yvonne W ^a   Shaffer, Brian L ^a   Caughey, Aaron B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Maternal outcome; Persistent OP position

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS MOVEMENT; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LABOR; LACERATION; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LABOR PRESENTATION; LABOR, INDUCED; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33748547555     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14767050600682487     Document Type: Article

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