Racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and obstetric care

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1460-1467

  Grobman, William A ^a   Bailit, Jennifer L ^a   Rice, Madeline Murguia ^a   Wapner, Ronald J ^a   Reddy, Uma M ^a   Varner, Michael W ^a   Thorp, John M ^a   Leveno, Kenneth J ^a   Caritis, Steve N ^a   Iams, Jay D ^a   Tita, Alan T N ^a   Saade, George ^a   Rouse, Dwight J ^a   Blackwell, Sean C ^a   Tolosa, Jorge E ^a   Vandorsten, J Peter ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISIOTOMY; ETHNIC DISPARITY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERINEUM INJURY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RACE; RACIAL DISPARITY; UNITED STATES; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; DELIVERY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; INJURIES; LACERATIONS; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EPISIOTOMY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LACERATIONS; PERINEUM; PERIPARTUM PERIOD; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929848419     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000000735     Document Type: Article

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