Elective Cesarean births: Are women making emancipated decisions?

Applied Nursing Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 147-152

  Wittmann Price, Ruth A ^a   Fliszar, Rosemary ^b   Bhattacharya, Anand ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CESAREAN SECTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 79960470387     PISSN: 08971897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnr.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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