Open Access Research article

Developing criteria for Cesarean Section using the RAND appropriateness method

Rahim Ostovar1,2, Arash Rashidian1,3,7*, Abolghasem Pourreza1, Batool H Rashidi4, Sedigheh Hantooshzadeh4, Hassan E Ardebili 5, Mahmood Mahmoudi6 and The members of the panel of the Cesarean Section RAM Study

1 Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

2 Department of Public Health, Yasouj University of Medical Sciences, Iran

3 Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

4 Vali-e-Asr Reproductive Health Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

5 Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

6 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

7 National Institute of Health Research, Italia Ave, Tehran, Iran

For all author emails, please log on.

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2010, 10:52 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-10-52

Published: 14 September 2010

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Table S1: AGREE criteria for appraising the quality of clinical practice guidelines32

Format: DOC Size: 28KB Download file

This file can be viewed with: Microsoft Word Viewer

Open Data