Up to seven-fold inter-hospital differences in obstetric anal sphincter injury rates- A birth register-based study in Finland

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Räisänen, Sari ^a,b   Vehviläinen Julkunen, Katri ^a,b   Gissler, Mika ^c,d   Heinonen, Seppo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

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EID: 78650330966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-3-345     Document Type: Article

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