The association between persistent fetal occiput posterior position and perinatal outcomes: An example of propensity score and covariate distance matching

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 171, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 656-663

  Cheng, Yvonne W ^a,b   Hubbard, Alan ^b   Caughey, Aaron B ^a   Tager, Ira B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor, obstetric; Pregnancy outcome; Propensity score

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALPRESENTATION; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERSISTENT FETAL OCCIPUT POSTERIOR POSITION; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LABOR PRESENTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAN FRANCISCO;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949349018     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp437     Document Type: Article

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