Patient selection and outcomes for out-of-hospital births in one family practice

Journal of Family Practice, August, 1990 by Louise S. Acheson, Stanley E. Harris, Stephen J. Zyzanski

Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by a Robert Wood Johnson Faculty

Development Grant. Barbara Alderson, Linda Harris, RN, Amy

Acheson, and Sonia Alemagno, PhD, provided data collection and

analysis.

* TABULAR DATA OMITTED

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