Home deliveries: Reasons and adverse outcomes in women presenting to a tertiary care hospital

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 555-558

  Shah, Nusrat ^a   Rohra, Dileep Kumar ^b   Shams, Huma ^a   Khan, Nusrat Hasan ^a  

^a DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIZWA   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HOME DELIVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PARITY; PERINEUM INJURY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RETAINED PLACENTA; SEPSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UTERUS RUPTURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; PAKISTAN; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; PAKISTAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954494264     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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