Commentary: Improving important pregnancy outcomes

Birth

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-53

  Goldenberg, Robert L ^a   McClure, Elizabeth M ^b   Althabe, Fernando ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; OXYTOCIN;

BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CESAREAN SECTION; ECLAMPSIA; EVALUATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; INFECTION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL STATUS; STILLBIRTH; VACUUM EXTRACTION;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 61649123375     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2008.00299.x     Document Type: Note

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