Cesarean Section Rates in Rural Hospitals
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Date
03/2005
Description
Findings Brief examining childbirth delivery patterns in rural hospitals and comparing the C-section rate in rural hospitals to that in urban hospitals using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS). Working Paper No. 80 on this topic is also available.
Center
North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
Authors
Sandra Greene, George Holmes, Rebecca Slifkin, Victoria Freeman, H. Ann Howard
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