Relationship Between Cesarean Delivery Rate and Maternal and Neonatal Mortality

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Based on older analyses, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that cesarean delivery rates should not exceed 10 to 15 per 100 live births to optimize maternal and neonatal outcomes.

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Title: JAMA

Abbreviated Title: JAMA

Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)

ISSN (Print): 0098-7484

Publication date Created: December 01 2015

Publication date (Print): December 01 2015

Volume: 314

Issue: 21

Page: 2263

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[1 ]Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts2Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Boston

[2 ]Stanford University, Department of Surgery, Stanford, California

[3 ]Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts4Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

[4 ]Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

[5 ]Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts6Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston, Massachusetts

[6 ]Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

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DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.15553

PubMed ID: 26624825

SO-VID: c63a9f45-a2e9-4cf2-a02a-b8268c8278be

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