Risk-adjusted cesarean rates: What risk factors for cesarean delivery are important to practicing obstetricians?

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 194-198

  Bailit, Jennifer L ^a   Schulkin, Jay ^b   Dawson, Neal V ^b  

^a Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cesarean section; Quality of health care; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BISHOP SCORE; CESAREAN SECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEAR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MACROSOMIA; MALPRESENTATION; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; OBSTETRICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; OBESITY; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RISK FACTORS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33947378815     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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