Has improved health care provision impacted on the obstetric outcome in teenage women?

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1358-1362

  Lao, Terence T ^a   Suen, Stephen Sik Hung ^a   Sahota, Daljit S ^a   Wa Law, Lai ^a   Yeung Leung, Tak ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Caesarean delivery; instrumental delivery; low birth weight; perinatal mortality; preterm birth; teenage pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADOLESCENT; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863859520     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2011.634460     Document Type: Article

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