Socio-demographic profile and obstetric experience of fistula patients managed at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital

Ethiopian Medical Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-16

  Muleta, Mulu ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA FISTULA HOSPITAL   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY HEIGHT; CYSTOVAGINAL FISTULA; DELIVERY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LABOR COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; RISK FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION; VESICOVAGINAL FISTULA;

EID: 20644464139     PISSN: 00141755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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