A 50-year audit of maternal mortality in the Peninsula Maternal and Neonatal Service, Cape Town (1953-2002)

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1257-1263

  Fawcus, S R ^a   Van Coeverden De Groot, H A ^a   Isaacs, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEPSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 25144444473     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2005.00601.x     Document Type: Article

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