Enemas during labour

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Reveiz, Ludovic ^a   Gaitán, Hernando G ^b   Cuervo, Luis Gabriel ^a  

^a PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA;

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LABOR ONSET; LABOR STAGE 1; META ANALYSIS; NEWBORN CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINEUM INJURY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UMBILICAL CORD COMPLICATION;

EID: 84961019537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000330.pub3     Document Type: Review

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