Postterm pregnancy: How can we improve outcomes?

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 715-724

  Caughey, Aaron B ^a   Snegovskikh, Victoria V ^b   Norwitz, Errol R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COITUS; DELIVERY; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY;

FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LABOR, INDUCED; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, PROLONGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 59649112026     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: 15339866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OGX.0b013e318186a9c7     Document Type: Review

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