An intervention involving traditional birth attendants and perinatal and maternal mortality in Pakistan

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 2091-2099

  Jokhio, Abdul Hakeem ^a,b   Winter, Heather R ^b   Cheng, Kar Keung ^b  

^a LIAQUAT UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN DEATH; PAKISTAN; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STILLBIRTH;

ADULT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDWIFERY; PAKISTAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 18644373335     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsa042830     Document Type: Article

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