Caesarean section on maternal request for non-medical reasons: Putting the UK National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines in perspective

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-177

  D'Souza, Rohan ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

caesarean section on maternal request; NICE guidelines

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; CESAREAN SECTIONS ON MATERNAL REQUEST; CHILDBIRTH; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INTRACRANIAL INJURY; INTRAUTERINE FETAL DEMISE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEONATAL ENCEPHALOPATHY; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PERIPARTUM HYSTERECTOMY; PHOBIA; PLACENTA PREVIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REDUCED FETAL GROWTH; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; SUPERFICIAL SKIN LACERATION; TOCOPHOBIA; UNITED KINGDOM; URINE INCONTINENCE; UTERINE COMPLICATION; UTERINE SCAR DEHISCENCE; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 84875372938     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2012.09.006     Document Type: Article

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