Maternal preference for cesarean delivery: Do women get what they want?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 252-260

  Fuglenes, Dorthe ^a   Aas, Eline ^a   Botten, Grete ^b   Øian, Pål ^b   Kristiansen, Ivar Sønbø ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORWAY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; NORWAY; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84864185880     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182605b1a     Document Type: Article

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