Measuring Unsafe Abortion-Related Mortality: A Systematic Review of the Existing Methods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gerdts, Caitlin ^a,b   Vohra, Divya ^b   Ahern, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATERNAL MORTALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDITY;

ABORTION, INDUCED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84872314032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053346     Document Type: Article

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