Variation in Caesarean Section Rates in the US: Outliers, Damned Outliers, and Statistics

Gordon C S Smith

PLOS Medicine, 2014, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-2

Abstract: : Gordon C. Smith discusses the study by Katy Kozhimannil and colleagues that examines variations in cesarean section rates in the US and argues for the need for high-quality routine data collection to better understand the reasons for these variations.

Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001746 (text/html)
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article/fil ... 01746&type=printable (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:plo:pmed00:1001746

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001746

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in PLOS Medicine from Public Library of Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by plosmedicine ().