Relationship between cesarean delivery rate and maternal and neonatal mortality

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 314, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 2263-2270

  Molina, George ^a,b   Weiser, Thomas G ^c   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^a   Esquivel, Micaela M ^c   Uribe Leitz, Tarsicio ^c   Azad, Tej ^d   Shah, Neel ^a,e   Semrau, Katherine ^a   Berry, William R ^a   Gawande, Atul A ^a   Haynes, Alex B ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION; ADULT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84949498403     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.15553     Document Type: Article

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