Epidemiology Branch and the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, Maryland.
Corresponding author: Pauline Mendola, PhD, Epidemiology Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 6100 Executive Boulevard, Room 7B03F, Rockville, MD 20852; e-mail: [email protected].
Supported by the Intramural Research Program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health. The Consortium on Safe Labor was funded by the Intramural Research Program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development through Contract No. HHSN267200603425C.
Financial Disclosure The authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.
Presented as a poster at the Inaugural Symposium on U.S. National Institutes of Health–Korea Collaborative Biomedical Research, April 16–17, 2015, Bethesda, Maryland; and at the 48th annual meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, June 16–19, 2015, Denver, Colorado.
The authors thank the institutions involved in the Consortium on Safe Labor for collecting data (in alphabetical order): Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Burnes Allen Research Center, Los Angeles, California; Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware; Georgetown University Hospital, MedStar Health, Washington, DC; Indiana University Clarian Health, Indianapolis, Indiana; Intermountain Healthcare and the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York; MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Summa Health System, Akron City Hospital, Akron, Ohio; The EMMES Corporation, Rockville, Maryland (Data Coordinating Center); University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; University of Miami, Miami, Florida; and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas.
