Factors contributing to rapidly increasing rates of cesarean section in Armenia: a partially mixed concurrent quantitative-qualitative equal status study

• Main Authors: Meri Tadevosyan (Author), Anna Ghazaryan (Author), Arusyak Harutyunyan (Author), Varduhi Petrosyan (Author), Adam Atherly (Author), Kim Hekimian (Author)
• פורמט: ספר
• יצא לאור: BMC, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Armenia has an upward trend in cesarean sections (CS); the CS rate increased from 7.2% in 2000 to 31.0% in 2017. The purpose of this study was to investigate potential factors contributing to the rapidly increasing rates of CS in Armenia and identify the actual costs of CS and va...