Improvements in US maternal obstetrical outcomes from 1992 to 2006

Medical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 487-493

  Srinivas, Sindhu K ^a   Epstein, Andrew J ^a,b   Nicholson, Sean ^a,c   Herrin, Jeph ^b   Asch, David A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications after delivery; Maternal outcomes; Obstetrics; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DELIVERY; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; FETUS MALFORMATION; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LABOR; LACERATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MACROSOMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALPRESENTATION; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OBSTETRICS; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS; UNITED STATES; UTERUS RUPTURE; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951623639     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181d68840     Document Type: Article

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