Levels, timing, and etiology of stillbirths in Sylhet district of Bangladesh

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Baqui, Abdullah H ^a,b   Choi, Yoonjoung ^a   Williams, Emma K ^a   Arifeen, Shams E ^a   Mannan, Ishtiaq ^a   Darmstadt, Gary L ^a,c   Black, Robert E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ICDDRB Public Health Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^c BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BANGLADESH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC INFECTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL PERIOD; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; STILLBIRTH; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STILLBIRTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953193465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-11-25     Document Type: Article

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