Racial and ethnic differences in primary, unscheduled cesarean deliveries among low-risk primiparous women at an academic medical center: A retrospective cohort study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Edmonds, Joyce K ^a   Yehezkel, Revital ^b   Liao, Xun ^b   Moore Simas, Tiffany A ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cesarean delivery; Healthcare disparity; Mode of delivery; Nulliparous; Race and ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; HUMAN; LABOR STAGE 2; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NULLIPARA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIMIPARA; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CESAREAN SECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FETAL DISTRESS; HUMANS; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; LABOR STAGE, SECOND; MASSACHUSETTS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883269701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-13-168     Document Type: Article

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