Should pregnancies be induced for impending macrosomia?

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9987, 2015, Pages 2557-2559

  Caughey, Aaron B ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; MACROSOMIA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEONATAL HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; NEWBORN DEATH; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; TRANSIENT TACHYPNEA OF THE NEWBORN; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; HUMANS; LABOR, INDUCED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY;

EID: 84937208889     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62302-3     Document Type: Note

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