Higher cesarean delivery rates are associated with higher infant mortality rates in industrialized countries

Birth

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 62-69

  Xie, Ri Hua ^a,b   Gaudet, Laura ^c   Krewski, Daniel ^b   Graham, Ian D ^c   Walker, Mark C ^c   Wen, Shi Wu ^c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cesarean delivery; High income countries; Infant mortality

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CESAREAN SECTION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84922986719     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/birt.12153     Document Type: Article

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