Epidemiology of obstetric critical care

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 763-774

  Baskett, Thomas F ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

eclampsia; maternal mortality; obstetric intensive care; postpartum haemorrhage; severe maternal morbidity

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DEATH; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; INTENSIVE CARE; LABOR COMPLICATION; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL AUDIT; OBSTETRIC CARE; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; UTERUS RUPTURE;

CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 50849142872     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2008.06.002     Document Type: Review

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