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Ignoring international alerts? The routinization of episiotomy in France in the 1980s and 1990s

As scientific evidence from the UK and the USA in the 1980s was questioning the usefulness of episiotomy, the rate in France increased from 38% in 1981 to 58.4% in 1996. In 1996, the World Health Organization recommended limiting the episiotomy rate to 10%. This article aims to examine this paradox...

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Autor principal: Mirouse, Lola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8517717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34693044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbms.2021.07.002