Magnesium sulfate is not used for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Mexico and Thailand as much as it should be

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 763-767

  Lumbiganon, Pisake ^a   Metin Gulmezoglu A ^b   Piaggio, Gilda ^c   Langerc, Ana ^c   Grimshawd, Jeremy ^d  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c POPULATION COUNCIL   (Mexico)

^d OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM SULFATE;

HEALTH SERVICES; MAGNESIUM; MATERNAL HEALTH; PREGNANCY; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DELIVERY; DRUG USE; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEXICO; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREVALENCE; THAILAND;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; DRUG UTILIZATION; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MEXICO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; THAILAND;

ASIA; EURASIA; FEDERAL DISTRICT [MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MEXICO CITY; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 36049021333     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.06.037911     Document Type: Article

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