Variation in Caesarean Section Rates in the US: Outliers, Damned Outliers, and Statistics

Gordon C. Smith discusses the study by Katy Kozhimannil and colleagues that examines variations in cesarean section rates in the US and argues for the need for high-quality routine data collection to better understand the reasons for these variations. Please see later in the article for the Editors&...

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Autor principal: Smith, Gordon C. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
Materias:
Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25334000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001746
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spelling pubmed-42048062014-10-27 Variation in Caesarean Section Rates in the US: Outliers, Damned Outliers, and Statistics Smith, Gordon C. S. PLoS Med Perspective Gordon C. Smith discusses the study by Katy Kozhimannil and colleagues that examines variations in cesarean section rates in the US and argues for the need for high-quality routine data collection to better understand the reasons for these variations. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary Public Library of Science 2014-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4204806/ /pubmed/25334000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001746 Text en © 2014 Gordon C http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Variation in Caesarean Section Rates in the US: Outliers, Damned Outliers, and Statistics
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title_full Variation in Caesarean Section Rates in the US: Outliers, Damned Outliers, and Statistics
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title_short Variation in Caesarean Section Rates in the US: Outliers, Damned Outliers, and Statistics
title_sort variation in caesarean section rates in the us: outliers, damned outliers, and statistics
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25334000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001746
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