Trends in rural and Urban deliveries and vaginal births: California 1998-2002

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 416-422

  Hughes, Susan ^a   Zweifler, John A ^a   Garza, Alvaro ^a   Stanich, Matthew A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LABOR COMPLICATION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 52949124868     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2008.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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