Strategies for Reducing Maternal Mortality

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-47

  Clark, Steven L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cesarean delivery; Maternal mortality; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

HYDRALAZINE;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PEER REVIEW; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856134677     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: 1558075X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2011.09.009     Document Type: Review

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