Planned home compared with planned hospital births in the netherlands: Intrapartum and early neonatal death in low-risk pregnancies

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1037-1046

  Van Der Kooy, Jacoba ^a,b   Poeran, Jashvant ^a,b   De Graaf, Johanna P ^a,b   Birnie, Erwin ^a,b   Denktasş, Semiha ^a,b   Steegers, Eric A P ^a,b   Bonsel, Gouke J ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Rotterdam Midwifery Academic (Verloskunde Academie Rotterdam)   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CASE MIX; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DELIVERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABOR ONSET; LOW RISK PREGNANCY; MIDWIFE; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLANNING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES;

EID: 80054910891     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182319737     Document Type: Article

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