Medical causes on stillbirth certificates in England and Wales: Distribution and results of hierarchical classifications tested by the office for national statistics

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1043-1049

  Alberman, Eva ^a   Blatchley, Nick ^b   Botting, Beverley ^b   Schuman, Jeremy ^b   Dunn, Alistair ^c  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STILLBIRTH; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGORITHMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; REGISTRIES; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; WALES;

EID: 0030880278     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1997.tb12064.x     Document Type: Article

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