Making pregnancy safer in Australia: The importance of maternal death review

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 130-136

  Kildea, Sue ^a   Pollock, Wendy Elizabeth ^b   Barclay, Lesley ^c  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Australia; Clinician; Indigenous; Maternal death; Maternal mortality

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ANESTHESIA; AUSTRALIA; BLEEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMAN; INFECTION; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SERVICE; NOTE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 41149093412     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2008.00846.x     Document Type: Note

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