Why is the labor epidural rate low and cesarean delivery rate high? A survey of Chinese perinatal care providers

• Peishan Zhao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peishan Zhao, Zhenyu Cai

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Zhenyu Cai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peishan Zhao, Zhenyu Cai

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aviation General Hospital, China Medical University, Beijing, P.R. China

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• Anna Huang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Chunyuan Liu,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Liangping County People’s Hospital, Chongqing, P.R. China

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• Huiling Li,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The People’s Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China

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• Shuwei Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation No Pain Labor & Delivery—Global Health Initiative (China Chapter), ApgarCARE International, Inc., Xi’an, Shaanxi, P.R. China

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• Ling-Qun Hu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lingqun.hu@osumc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0548-051X

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