The association of maternal race and ethnicity and the risk of postpartum hemorrhage

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1127-1136

  Bryant, Allison ^a   Mhyre, Jill M ^b   Leffert, Lisa R ^a   Hoban, Rebecca A ^c   Yakoob, Mohammad Y ^c   Bateman, Brian T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PACIFIC ISLANDER; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; UTERINE ATONY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868196549     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182691e62     Document Type: Article

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