Induction of Labor in the United States: A Critical Appraisal of Appropriateness and Reducibility

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 336-343

  Chauhan, Suneet P ^a   Ananth, Cande V ^b  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Columbia University Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Elective induction; Membrane sweeping; National guidelines

Indexed keywords

CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECLAMPSIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS OUTCOME; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LABOR INDUCTION; LUNG DISEASE; MACROSOMIA; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; REVIEW; STILLBIRTH; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, INDUCED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866544737     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2012.04.016     Document Type: Review

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