WHO analysis of causes of maternal death: a systematic review

Lancet

Volumn 367, Issue 9516, 2006, Pages 1066-1074

  Khan, Khalid S ^b   Wojdyla, Daniel ^c   Say, Lale ^a   Gülmezoglu, A Metin ^a   Van Look, Paul FA ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIOSIS; BLEEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CINAHL; DATA EXTRACTION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBASE; EMBOLISM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABOR COMPLICATION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT TO ILLNESS SCALE; QUALITY CONTROL; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; INDUCED ABORTION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW;

ABORTION, INDUCED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; SEPSIS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33645737208     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68397-9     Document Type: Article

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