Maternal mortality in Ghana: A hospital-based review

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-92

  Lee, Qin Yi ^a   Odoi, Alexander T ^b   Opare Addo, Henry ^b   Dassah, Edward T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KOMFO ANOKYE TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

Author keywords

early pregnancy death; genital tract sepsis; hemorrhage; hypertension in pregnancy; Maternal mortality; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ANTEPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BREECH PRESENTATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; ECLAMPSIA; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GHANA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDATIDIFORM MOLE; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVE BIRTH; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENINGITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC ABORTION; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UTERUS RUPTURE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GHANA; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 83455219274     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0412.2011.01249.x     Document Type: Article

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