Timing of planned cesarean delivery by racial group

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 659-666

  Balchin, Imelda ^a   Whittaker, John C ^a   Lamont, Ronald F ^a   Steer, Philip J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CESAREAN SECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEGRO; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; TACHYPNEA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETHNOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; UNITED KINGDOM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CESAREAN SECTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LONDON; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN;

EID: 42449092004     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318163cd55     Document Type: Article

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