Rising cesarean rates: are patients sicker?
The rate of primary CD is increasing, despite improvements in patient risk profile. The increasing CD rate may result from changes in physician behavior, institutional factors, and increasing patient demand for elective cesarean delivery.
These results confirm that auditory and phonological processing have to be treated as separate entities. Although a hierarchical model of auditory input processing ultimately enabling comprehension appears to be accepted in the literature, auditory processing may not predict phonological processing and vice versa.