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Article: CAESAREAN SECTION ON MATERNAL REQUEST: A COMPARISON OF OBSTETRICIANS' ATTITUDES IN EIGHT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
- Article from:
- Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Objective: To explore the attitudes of European obstetricians to performing a caesarean section on maternal request in the absence of medical indication.
Methods: Within a European collaborative project (EUROBS), NICU-associated maternity units were selected by census in Luxembourg, Netherlands and Sweden, and by geographically stratified random sampling in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and UK. An anonymous, self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection.
Results: One hundred and five units and 1530 obstetricians participated in the study (response rates 70% and 77% respectively). Compliance with a hypothetical woman's request for elective caesarean section simply because it ...