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 ,Revised 14 January 2007 ,Accepted 12 February 2007.

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☆ 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

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