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Little research has been done on the phenomenon of rising national caesarean-section trends in Europe. From what is known — mainly from international and hospital sources — this phenomenon seems to be recent, widespread, and self-perpetuating. The widely held assumption that (unduly) high caesarean-section rates are in the interest of both mother and child will be challenged in this workshop, and measures to curb caesarean-section rates without affecting the perinatal outcome will be assessed.
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Thiery, M. (1985). Chairman’s introduction. In: Clinch, J., Matthews, T. (eds) Perinatal Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4918-8_26
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