Outcomes after vacuum-assisted deliveries. Births attended by community family practitioners

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 50, Issue AUG., 2004, Pages 1109-1114

  Yarrow, Colin ^a   Benoit, A Glenn ^b   Klein, Michael C ^b  

^a KELOWNA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH INJURY; CESAREAN SECTION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DELIVERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORCEPS DELIVERY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL AUDIT; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NULLIPARA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERINEUM INJURY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE; VACUUM EXTRACTION;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; OBSTETRICAL FORCEPS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VACUUM EXTRACTION, OBSTETRICAL;

EID: 4444361772     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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