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One of the significant recommendations made by the task force of the consensus conference on cesarean birth, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for curbing the ever-increasing cesarean birthrate in the United States was to substitute routine elective repeat cesarean delivery with a trial of labor and subsequent vaginal delivery in adequately selected cases6. Because more than 98% of US women with a previous cesarean delivery undergo a repeat cesarean for subsequent pregnancies6, and the number of women delivered vaginally after previous cesarean birth in a hospital is generally too small for comparison with the former1, we used data from two Asian teaching hospitals to assess the benefits and risks associated with this recommendation.
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Chi, I., Saifuddin, A.B., Gunatilake, D.E., Wallace, S.L. (1983). Deliveries after cesarean birth in two Asian university hospitals. In: Potts, M., Janowitz, B., Fortney, J.A. (eds) Childbirth in Developing Countries. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7265-3_5
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