EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO OBSTETRIC CARE: PART I

  1. I. Chalmers MRC Research Fellow 1,
  2. J. G. Lawson Consultant Obstetrician 2,
  3. A. C. Turnbull Professor Nuffield 3

Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005

DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1976.tb00776.x

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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Volume 83, Issue 12, pages 921–929, December 1976

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Chalmers, I., Lawson, J. G. and Turnbull, A. C. (1976), EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO OBSTETRIC CARE: PART I. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 83: 921–929. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1976.tb00776.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Medical Statistics, Welsh National School of Medicine

  2. 2

    University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

  3. 3

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

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  1. Issue published online: 23 AUG 2005
  2. Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005

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Summary

The obstetric management and results obtained by two obstetric teams working in the Cardiff Maternity Hospital over a five-year period are compared. One team had a more active approach to induction of labour and antepartum monitoring with urinary oestrogen assay and serial ultrasound cephalometry than the other. After controlling for differences in the attributes of the two groups of patients treated, it was not possible to show any striking advantage or disadvantage of the more active approach.

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