A practical approach to identifying maternal deaths missed from routine hospital reports: Lessons from Indonesia

Global Health Action

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Qomariyah, Siti Nurul ^a   Bell, Jacqueline S ^b   Pambudi, Eko S ^a   Anggondowati, Trisari ^a   Latief, Kamaluddin ^a   Achadi, Endang L ^a   Graham, Wendy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health information system; Hospital mortality; Maternal death; Missing reports

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857780570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.1905     Document Type: Article

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