Ethnic differences in midwife-attended US births.
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Physician- and midwife-attended home births. Effects of breech, twin, and post-dates outcome data on mortality rates.
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.84.7.1139