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Comment
. 2016 Dec;21(6):237.
doi: 10.1136/ebmed-2016-110393. Epub 2016 Sep 23.

Determination of a single, universal threshold for caesarean section rate is not the way forward

Ana Pilar Betrán  1 , Jun Zhang  2 , Maria Regina Torloni  3 , A Metin Gülmezoglu  1
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Comment

Determination of a single, universal threshold for caesarean section rate is not the way forward

Ana Pilar Betrán et al. Evid Based Med. 2016 Dec.
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Conflict of interest statement

All the authors were involved in the 2015 WHO Statement on Caesarean Section Rates and are coauthors of the syst6ematics review and analyses that formed the basis for the Statement and that are cited in the Commentary.

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