The changing perinatal landscape: Are we making any progress?

Academic Pediatrics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 247-249

  Kramer, Michael S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CONFERENCE PAPER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURE LABOR; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR;

CANADA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LABOR, INDUCED; MULTIPLE BIRTH OFFSPRING; PERINATOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955939050     PISSN: 18762859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2010.12.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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