European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Volume 136, Issue 1 , Pages 46-52, January 2008

Obstetrician gender and the likelihood of performing a maternal request for a cesarean delivery☆

  • Tsai-Ching Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Finance, National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Herng-Ching Lin

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wu-Hsing St., Taipei 110, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 2 2345 2506x13; fax: +886 2 2378 9788.
    • ,
  • Chin-Shyan Chen

      Affiliations

    • Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Economics, National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Hsin-Chien Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Received 27 October 2005; received in revised form 14 January 2007; accepted 12 February 2007. published online 09 March 2007.

To access this article, please choose from the options below

Login to an existing account or Register a new account.

  • Purchase this article for 31.50 USD (You must login/register to purchase this article)

    Online access for 24 hours. The PDF version can be downloaded as your permanent record.

  • Subscribe to this title

    Get unlimited online access to this article and all other articles in this title 24/7 for one year.

  • Claim access now

    For current subscribers with Society Membership or Account Number.

  • Visit SciVerse ScienceDirect to see if you have access via your institution.

☆ Sources of information for the study: Secondary data released from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database which included no patient, institution, or physician identifiers.

PII: S0301-2115(07)00085-1

doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2007.02.007

European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Volume 136, Issue 1 , Pages 46-52, January 2008

Article Tools