Is a rising cesarean delivery rate inevitable? Trends in industrialized countries, 1987 to 2007

Birth

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-104

  Declercq, Eugene ^a   Young, Robin ^a,b   Cabral, Howard ^a   Ecker, Jeffrey ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cesarean delivery rates; Cesarean trends; Cross national analysis; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; HUMAN; STATISTICS;

CESAREAN SECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; HUMANS;

EID: 79956213771     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2010.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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