Listening to Women's Voices: The Quality of Care of Women Experiencing Severe Maternal Morbidity, in Accra, Ghana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Tunçalp, Özge ^a   Hindin, Michelle J ^a   Adu Bonsaffoh, Kwame ^b   Adanu, Richard ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYING; FEAR; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; RISK FACTOR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84865620162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044536     Document Type: Article

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