Outcomes of care for 16,924 planned home births in the United States: The midwives alliance of North America statistics project, 2004 to 2009

Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-27

  Cheyney, Melissa ^a   Bovbjerg, Marit ^a   Everson, Courtney ^a   Gordon, Wendy ^b   Hannibal, Darcy ^c   Vedam, Saraswathi ^d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BASTYR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birth place; Home childbirth; Midwife; Midwifery; Perinatal outcome; Pregnancy outcomes

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; DECISION MAKING; FETUS MORTALITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; LABOR MANAGEMENT; LABOR ONSET; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DELIVERY; FEMALE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LABOR; NEWBORN; NURSE MIDWIFE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MIDWIFERY; NURSE MIDWIVES; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896691630     PISSN: 15269523     EISSN: 15422011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jmwh.12172     Document Type: Article

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