Criteria-based audit on management of eclampsia patients at a tertiary hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kidanto, Hussein Lesio ^a,b   Mogren, Ingrid ^b   Massawe, Siriel N ^a   Lindmark, Gunilla ^c   Nystrom, Lennarth ^b  

^a MUHIMBILI NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Tanzania)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM SULFATE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; TANZANIA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT PLANNING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DELIVERY; GESTATIONAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TANZANIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65449165627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-9-13     Document Type: Article

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