Challenges in saving babies - Avoidable factors, missed opportunities and substandard care in perinatal deaths in South Africa

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 450-455

  Pattinson, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH INJURY; BLEEDING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARD;

ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; BIRTH INJURIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0042885373     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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