Timing of placental delivery to prevent post-partum haemorrhage: Lessons learned from an abandoned randomised clinical trial

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 549-551

  Magann, Everett F ^a   Doherty, Dorota A ^b   Briery, Christian M ^c   Niederhauser, Amy ^a   Morrison, John C ^c  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Post partum haemorrhage; Third stage of labour

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; LABOR STAGE 3; LEARNING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLACENTAL DELIVERY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

ADULT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR STAGE, THIRD; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751075985     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2006.00658.x     Document Type: Article

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