Maternal and neonatal individual risks and benefits associated with caesarean delivery: Multicentre prospective study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 335, Issue 7628, 2007, Pages 1025-1029

  Villar, José ^a   Carroli, Guillermo ^b   Zavaleta, Nelly ^b   Donner, Allan ^b   Wojdyla, Daniel ^b   Faundes, Anibal ^b   Velazco, Alejandro ^b   Bataglia, Vicente ^b   Langer, Ana ^b   Narváez, Alberto ^b   Valladares, Eliette ^b   Shah, Archana ^b   Campodónico, Liana ^b   Romero, Mariana ^b   Reynoso, Sofia ^b   De Pádua, Karla Simônia ^b   Giordano, Daniel ^b   Kublickas, Marius ^b   Acosta, Arnaldo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BREECH PRESENTATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

CESAREAN SECTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 36348931576     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39363.706956.55     Document Type: Article

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