CMAJ February 13, 2007; 176 (4). doi:10.1503/cmaj.060870.
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Maternal mortality and severe morbidity associated with low-risk planned cesarean delivery versus planned vaginal delivery at term
Shiliang Liu,
Robert M. Liston,
K.S. Joseph,
Maureen Heaman,
Reg Sauve,
Michael S. Kramer for the Maternal Health Study Group of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System
From the Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division (Liu), Centre for Health Promotion, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Liston), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Perinatal Epidemiology Research Unit (Joseph), Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS; the Faculty of Nursing and Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences (Heaman), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man.; Departments of Pediatrics and of Community Health Sciences (Sauve), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta.; and the Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Kramer), McGill University, Montréal, Que.