Maternal mortality and morbidity of unsafe abortion in a university teaching hospital of Karachi, Pakistan

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 582-586

  Shah, Nusrat ^a   Hossain, Nazli ^a   Noonari, Mukhtiar ^a   Khan, Nusrat Hassan ^a  

^a DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Maternal morbidity and maternal mortality; Unsafe abortion

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INDUCED ABORTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PAKISTAN; PATIENT SAFETY; POVERTY; SEPTICEMIA; SINGLE WOMAN; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; UTERUS BLEEDING; UTERUS PERFORATION;

ABORTION, INCOMPLETE; ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; PAKISTAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UTERINE PERFORATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957744389     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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