Birth Preferences that Deviate from the Norm in Sweden: Planned Home Birth versus Planned Cesarean Section

Birth

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 288-295

  Hildingsson, Ingegerd ^a   Rådestad, Ingela ^b   Lindgren, Helena ^c  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cesarean section; Home birth; Maternal request

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; MOTHER; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; MOTHERS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649593605     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2010.00423.x     Document Type: Article

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