Physician demand for leisure: implications for cesarean section rates.
Logistic regression models test whether physician demand for leisure affects both total and unplanned cesarean section rates, after controlling for relevant clinical variables. Although nature distributes births and associated problems uniformly, time-dependent dummy variables related to leisure are significant predictors of both total and unplanned c-sections.
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Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. brownhs@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002585:Cesarean Section / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006772:Hospitals, Military / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007899:Leisure Activities; D016015:Logistic Models; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors; D013996:Time and Motion Studies; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology