Improving obstetric care in low-resource settings: Implementation of facility-based maternal death reviews in five pilot hospitals in Senegal

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dumont, Alexandre ^a   Tourigny, Caroline ^b   Fournier, Pierre ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 69249129113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-7-61     Document Type: Review

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