Regionalization of care for obstetric hemorrhage and its effect on maternal mortality

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1194-1200

  Wright, Jason D ^a   Herzog, Thomas J ^a   Shah, Monjri ^a   Bonanno, Clarissa ^a   Lewin, Sharyn N ^a   Cleary, Kirsten ^a   Simpson, Lynn L ^a   Gaddipati, Sreedhar ^a   Sun, Xuming ^a   D'Alton, Mary E ^a   Devine, Patricia ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER INJURY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC CARE; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONALIZATION; TRANSFUSION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952997753     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181df94e8     Document Type: Article

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