Therapeutic Choices for Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy: A Critical Review of a Systematic Review

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 733-735

  Koren, Gideon ^a   Maltepe, Caroline ^a   Gow, Rachel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antiemetics; Morning sickness; Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy; NVP; Prospective observational studies

Indexed keywords

BENDECTIN; DOXYLAMINE PLUS PYRIDOXINE; PLACEBO; PYRIDOXINE;

COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MORNING SICKNESS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NAUSEA AND VOMITING OF PREGNANCY; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYMPTOM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TERATOGENICITY; WELLBEING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; LITERATURE; NAUSEA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; VOMITING;

FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; NAUSEA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; VOMITING;

EID: 82255172016     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(16)34960-X     Document Type: Note

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