| Rank |
Title |
Journal |
Year |
PubWeight™‹?› |
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1
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Trends in cesarean section rates for the United States, 1970--78.
|
Public Health Rep
|
1981
|
3.67
|
|
2
|
Trends in the United States cesarean section rate and reasons for the 1980-85 rise.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1987
|
3.53
|
|
3
|
Comparisons of national cesarean-section rates.
|
N Engl J Med
|
1987
|
3.15
|
|
4
|
Complications in cesarean and non-cesarean deliveries: United States, 1980.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1983
|
2.41
|
|
5
|
Pregnancy-related weight gain and retention: implications of the 1990 Institute of Medicine guidelines.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1993
|
2.35
|
|
6
|
Advice about weight gain during pregnancy and actual weight gain.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1986
|
2.07
|
|
7
|
The frequency of complications in cesarean and noncesarean deliveries, 1970 and 1978.
|
Public Health Rep
|
1983
|
1.98
|
|
8
|
Childbearing characteristics of U.S.- and foreign-born Hispanic mothers.
|
Public Health Rep
|
1986
|
1.93
|
|
9
|
Revised U.S. certificate of birth--new opportunities for research on birth outcome.
|
Birth
|
1989
|
1.93
|
|
10
|
Cesarean rate increases in 1985.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1987
|
1.50
|
|
11
|
Recent patterns in cesarean delivery in the United States.
|
Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am
|
1988
|
1.49
|
|
12
|
One-fifth of 1983 US births by cesarean section.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1985
|
1.47
|
|
13
|
Postpartum sterilization in cesarean section and non-cesarean section deliveries: United States, 1970-75.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1981
|
1.42
|
|
14
|
1989 U.S. cesarean section rate steadies--VBAC rate rises to nearly one in five.
|
Birth
|
1991
|
1.27
|
|
15
|
Changes in indications for cesarean delivery: United States, 1985 and 1994.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1998
|
1.22
|
|
16
|
Vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) in the 1980s.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1988
|
1.13
|
|
17
|
Electronic fetal monitoring in relation to cesarean section delivery, for live births and stillbirths in the U.S., 1980.
|
Public Health Rep
|
1984
|
1.11
|
|
18
|
1986 C-sections rise; VBACs inch upward.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1988
|
1.03
|
|
19
|
1988 U.S. cesarean-section rate at 24.7 per 100 births--a plateau?
|
N Engl J Med
|
1990
|
1.01
|
|
20
|
Current and future impact of rising multiple birth ratios on low birthweight.
|
Stat Bull Metrop Insur Co
|
1997
|
0.90
|
|
21
|
Estimates of pregnancies and pregnancy rates for the United States, 1976-85.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1988
|
0.86
|
|
22
|
State variation in rates of cesarean and VBAC delivery: 1989 and 1993.
|
Stat Bull Metrop Insur Co
|
1996
|
0.85
|
|
23
|
U.S. cesarean section rates 1990: an update.
|
Birth
|
1992
|
0.83
|
|
24
|
Factors influencing primary cesarean rates.
|
JAMA
|
1994
|
0.82
|
|
25
|
Cesarean delivery in the United States, 1990.
|
Vital Health Stat 21
|
1994
|
0.81
|
|
26
|
Infant mortality among blacks and whites.
|
N Engl J Med
|
1992
|
0.75
|
|
27
|
Maternal weight gain and the outcome of pregnancy.
|
Vital Health Stat 21
|
1986
|
0.75
|
|
28
|
Selected vital and health statistics in poverty and nonpoverty areas of 19 large cities; United States, 1969-71.
|
Vital Health Stat 21
|
1975
|
0.75
|
|
29
|
Rates of cesarean and VBAC delivery, United States, 1994.
|
Birth
|
1996
|
0.75
|
|
30
|
Trends and characteristics of births attended by midwives.
|
Stat Bull Metrop Insur Co
|
1997
|
0.75
|
|
31
|
Trends in low birth weight: United States, 1975-85.
|
Vital Health Stat 21
|
1989
|
0.75
|
|
32
|
Association between maternal weight gain and outcome of pregnancy.
|
J Nurse Midwifery
|
1986
|
0.75
|