Using Uniject to increase the use of prophylactic oxytocin for management of the third stage of labor in Latin America

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 184-189

  Althabe, Fernando ^a   Mazzoni, Agustina ^a   Cafferata, María L ^b   Gibbons, Luz ^a   Karolinski, Ariel ^a   Armbruster, Deborah ^c   Buekens, Pierre ^d   Belizán, José M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

^b Clinical and Epidemiological Research Unit Montevideo   (Uruguay)

^c Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)   (United States)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maternal mortality Oxytocin; Postpartum hemorrhage; Third stage of labor; Uniject

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; UTEROTONIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; LABOR; LABOR INDUCTION; LABOR STAGE 3; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASSAGE; MIDWIFE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

EID: 79960151791     PISSN: 00207292     EISSN: 18793479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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