Elective Primary Cesarean Delivery
- 6 March 2003
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 348 (10), 946-950
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsb022734
Abstract
Some women would prefer an elective cesarean delivery to labor. The authors of this Sounding Board article review the arguments for and against elective cesarean delivery. They conclude that the available data do not support the routine recommendation of this approach but that they do support a physician's acceding to a request for cesarean delivery made by an informed patient.Keywords
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