Using malpractice claims to identify risk factors for neurological impairment among infants following non-reassuring fetal heart rate patterns during labour

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 476-483

  Kesselheim, Aaron S ^a   November, Martin T ^b   Lifford, Karen L ^a   McElrath, Thomas F ^a   Puopolo, Ann L ^c   Orav, E John ^d   Studdert, David M ^d,e  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Loss Prevention and Patient Safety   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complicated labour; Electronic fetal monitoring; Neonatal neurological injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILATATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LABOR; LABOR COMPLICATION; LABOR STAGE 1; LATENT PERIOD; LEGAL LIABILITY; MALPRACTICE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MALPRACTICE; MASSACHUSETTS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952901850     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01148.x     Document Type: Article

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