American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 206, Issue 3 , Pages 239.e1-239.e8, March 2012

Timing of delivery and pregnancy outcomes among laboring nulliparous women

Presented in part at the 57th annual meeting of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, Orlando, FL, March 24-27, 2010.

  • Alan Thevenet N. Tita, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Alabama School of Medicine at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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  • Yinglei Lai, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the George Washington University Biostatistics Center, Washington, DC
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  • Steven L. Bloom, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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  • Catherine Y. Spong, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD
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  • Michael W. Varner, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
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  • Susan M. Ramin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
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  • Steve N. Caritis, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • William A. Grobman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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  • Yoram Sorokin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI
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  • Anthony Sciscione, DO

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
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  • Marshall W. Carpenter, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI
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  • Brian M. Mercer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
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  • John M. Thorp Jr, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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  • Fergal D. Malone, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
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  • Margaret Harper, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC
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  • Jay D. Iams, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH

Received 29 August 2011; received in revised form 22 November 2011; accepted 11 December 2011. published online 19 December 2011.

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 Subcommittee members and other members of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network are listed in the Acknowledgments section.

 The project described was supported by grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD21410, HD27860, HD27869, HD27915, HD27917, HD34116, HD34136, HD34208, HD40485, HD40500, HD40512, HD40544, HD40545, HD40560, and HD36801).

 The authors report no conflict of interest.

 The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development or the National Institutes of Health.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

 Cite this article as: Tita ATN, Lai Y, Bloom SL, et al. Timing of delivery and pregnancy outcomes among laboring nulliparous women. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2012;206;239.e1-8

PII: S0002-9378(11)02400-8

doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2011.12.006

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Volume 206, Issue 3 , Pages 239.e1-239.e8, March 2012

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