Rising cesarean rates: Are patients sicker?
Authors:
- Thomas E. LoveTLThomas E. Love
- Brian MercerBMBrian Mercer
- 1 September 2004
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Vol. 191 (3) , 800-803
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