The rising cesarean delivery rate in America: What are the consequences?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 687-690

  Blanchette, Howard ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEAR; FECES INCONTINENCE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LABOR PAIN; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL LIABILITY; NULLIPARA; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; URINE INCONTINENCE; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN;

EID: 80052173840     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318227b8d9     Document Type: Article

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