Obstructed Labor and Caesarean Delivery: The Cost and Benefit of Surgical Intervention

Blake C. Alkire; Jeffrey R. Vincent; Christy Turlington Burns; Ian S. Metzler; Paul E. Farmer; John G. Meara

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034595

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Obstructed Labor and Caesarean Delivery: The Cost and Benefit of Surgical Intervention

Blake C. Alkire ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Blake C. Alkire, Jeffrey R. Vincent

Affiliations Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jeffrey R. Vincent ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Blake C. Alkire, Jeffrey R. Vincent

Affiliation Nicholas School of the Environment and Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Christy Turlington Burns,

Affiliation Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Ian S. Metzler,

Affiliation Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Paul E. Farmer,

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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John G. Meara

* E-mail: john.meara@childrens.harvard.edu

Affiliations Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Obstructed Labor and Caesarean Delivery: The Cost and Benefit of Surgical Intervention

Blake C. Alkire,
Jeffrey R. Vincent,
Christy Turlington Burns,
Ian S. Metzler,
Paul E. Farmer,
John G. Meara

Published: April 25, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034595

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