Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths: 50 years of closing the loop

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 413-416

  Ngan Kee, W D ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTACID AGENT; OXYTOCIN;

ABORTION; ANESTHESIST; BLEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; CONFIDENTIALITY; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PATIENT CARE; PEER REVIEW; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 17044424223     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aei069     Document Type: Editorial

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