At What Price? A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Comparing Trial of Labour after Previous Caesarean versus Elective Repeat Caesarean Delivery

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Fawsitt, Christopher G ^a,b   Bourke, Jane ^b   Greene, Richard A ^a   Everard, Claire M ^c   Murphy, Aileen ^b   Lutomski, Jennifer E ^a  

^a National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTIVE REPEAT CESAREAN DELIVERY; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRELAND; LENGTH OF STAY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRIAL OF LABOR AFTER CESAREAN; UTERUS RUPTURE;

CESAREAN SECTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; PREGNANCY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; TRIAL OF LABOR; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN;

EID: 84874629814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058577     Document Type: Article

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