Wx rhile sitting at 2 am with one eye nervously rivotted on the heart tracing of the fetus of a
high-risk, 40-year-old multipara who had already demonstrated heavy meco-nium staining …

Wx rhile sitting at 2 am with one eye nervously rivotted on the heart tracing of the fetus of a
high-risk, 40-year-old multipara who had already demonstrated heavy meco-nium staining …

After increasing steadily for 15 years the cesarean section rate in Ontario stabilized at 20.2
per 100 deliveries in the fiscal years 1986-87 and 1987-88. An important factor in the …

Cesarean section rates in the United States have been a matter of public concern for the last
decade. Between 1968 and 1977, the national rate tripled, reaching a mean of 132 per cent …

To the Editor:\p= m-\Ina medium sized general hospital in which there are about 600
obstetric deliveries a year whatshould the percentage of cesarean sections be? We have …

To determine the effect in California of the 1980 Consensus Development Task Force
recommendations to lower cesarean delivery rates, we analyzed California vital statistics for …

There have been profound changes in obstetric care in the past decade, as exemplified by
the trebling in many areas of the proportion of deliveries performed by cesarean section …

The article by Gleicher 1 in this issue ofThe Journalonce again documents the very
important need to continue to evaluate the high rates of cesarean births while maintaining …

With the decline in the overall birth rates in Canada and the United States, and with the
tendency towards rising maternal age, an even greater emphasis was placed on the health …

In response to increasing public and government concerns, the National Consensus
Conference on Aspects of Cesarean Birth convened in 1985 and made recommendations to …