Challenging the Use of Race in the Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Section Calculator

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 201-204

  Vyas, Darshali A ^a   Jones, David S ^a   Meadows, Audra R ^a,b   Diouf, Khady ^a,b   Nour, Nawal M ^a,b   Schantz Dunn, Julianna ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGING; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; ETHNICITY; FEMALE STERILIZATION; FETUS SURGERY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GENETIC VARIATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEXICAN; MYOMETRIUM; NOTE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PELVIC CAVITY; PELVIC FLOOR DISORDER; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL HIERARCHY; SWEDISH CITIZEN; UNITED STATES; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CESAREAN;

EID: 85065071052     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2019.04.007     Document Type: Note

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