Ethnic differences in the use of intrapartum epidural analgesia

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Jiménez Puente, Alberto ^a,b   Benítez Parejo, Nicolás ^a,b   Del Diego Salas, Jorge ^c   Rivas Ruiz, Francisco ^a,b   Maãán Di Leo, Claudio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL COSTA DEL SOL   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA VICTORIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Delivery; Epidural analgesia; Ethnicity; Immigrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864619635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-207     Document Type: Article

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