Outcomes after internal versus external tocodynamometry for monitoring labor

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 362, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 306-313

  Bakker, Jannet J H ^a   Verhoeven, Corine J M ^b   Janssen, Petra F ^c   Van Lith, Jan M ^d,f   Van Oudgaarden, Elisabeth D ^e   Bloemenkamp, Kitty W M ^f   Papatsonis, Dimitri N M ^g   Mol, Ben Willem J ^a,b   Van Der Post, Joris A M ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MÁXIMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^e SLOTERVAART HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g AMPHIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL TOCODYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL TOCODYNAMOMETRY; INTRAUTERINE PRESSURE; LABOR; LENGTH OF STAY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PH; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 75449115144     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0902748     Document Type: Article

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