The postpartum visit: Why wait 6 weeks?

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 674-678

  Piejko, Ewa ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ANAMNESIS; BREAST FEEDING; CONTRACEPTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABOR PAIN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTNATAL CARE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REVIEW; TIME;

ANALGESIA; BREAST FEEDING; CONTRACEPTION; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR PAIN; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTNATAL CARE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750587857     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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