Severe maternal morbidity (near miss) as a sentinel event of maternal death. An attempt to use routine data for surveillance

Reproductive Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Sousa, Maria H ^a,b   Cecatti, Jose G ^a,b   Hardy, Ellen E ^a,b   Serruya, Suzanne J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Center for Mother and Child Research of Campinas   (Brazil)

^c MINISTÉRIO DA SAÚDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAZIL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFECTION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; PUERPERIUM; SCHOOL CHILD; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 56349163781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-5-6     Document Type: Article

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