Near-miss maternal mortality: Cardiac dysfunction as the principal cause of obstetric intensive care unit admissions

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 250-255

  Small, Maria J ^a   James, Andra H ^a   Kershaw, Trace ^a   Thames, Betty ^a   Gunatilake, Ravi ^a   Brown, Haywood ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEAR MISS MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEPSIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEMORRHAGE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PARITY; PATIENT ADMISSION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SEPSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856485362     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31824265c7     Document Type: Article

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