Hospital volume, provider volume, and complications after childbirth in U.S. Hospitals

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 521-527

  Janakiraman, Vanitha ^a,b,c   Lazar, Jane ^a,b,c   Joynt, Karen E ^a,b,c   Jha, Ashish K ^a,b,c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER INJURY; CERVICAL LACERATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; FOURTH DEGREE LACERATION; GYNECOLOGIC INFECTION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL VOLUME; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; LACERATION; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIC ORGAN INJURY; PELVIS INJURY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; POSTPARTUM SHOCK; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIDER VOLUME; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RETAINED FOREIGN BODY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERE VULVAR LACERATION; THIRD DEGREE LACERATION; UNITED STATES; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OBSTETRICS; ODDS RATIO; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052179887     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31822a65e4     Document Type: Article

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