The Influence of Practice Management on Primary Cesarean Birth

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 399-402

  Socol, Michael L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrest disorders; Fetal intolerance of labour; Induction of labor; Patient autonomy

Indexed keywords

AGING; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREECH EXTRACTION; CESAREAN SECTION; DYSTOCIA; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABOR ARREST DISORDER; LABOR INDUCTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MULTIPARA; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NULLIPARA; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL DISTRESS; HUMANS; LABOR, INDUCED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84866552662     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2012.04.027     Document Type: Review

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