Maternal outcomes associated with planned primary cesarean births compared with planned vaginal births

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 669-677

  Declercq, Eugene ^a   Barger, Mary ^b   Cabral, Howard J ^b   Evans, Stephen R ^b   Kotelchuck, Milton ^b   Simon, Carol ^b   Weiss, Judith ^b   Heffner, Linda J ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INFECTION; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGINAL DELIVERY; WOUND COMPLICATION;

CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MASSACHUSETTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33847382785     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000255668.20639.40     Document Type: Article

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