Using audit to enhance quality of maternity care in resource limited countries: Lessons learnt from rural Tanzania

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Nyamtema, Angelo S ^a   de Jong, Alise B ^b   Urassa, David P ^c   van Roosmalen, Jos ^b,d  

^a St Francis Designated District Hospital   (Tanzania)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DELIVERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; OBSTETRIC CARE; OBSTETRIC EMERGENCY; PATIENT CARE; TANZANIA; HEALTH SERVICE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA;

EID: 81055149762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-11-94     Document Type: Article

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