How to stop the relentless rise in cesarean deliveries

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 199-200

  Queenan, John T ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NULLIPARA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; NURSE MIDWIVES; OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN;

EID: 79961099183     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182266682     Document Type: Editorial

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