Applicability of the WHO Maternal Near Miss Criteria in a Low-Resource Setting

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Nelissen, Ellen ^a,b   Mduma, Estomih ^a   Broerse, Jacqueline ^b   Ersdal, Hege ^a,c   Evjen Olsen, Bjørg ^d,e   van Roosmalen, Jos ^f,g   Stekelenburg, Jelle ^h  

^a HAYDOM LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (Tanzania)

^b ATHENA INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e Sørlandet Hospital   (Norway)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE FATALITY RATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; GENERAL PATHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTENSIVE CARE; JAUNDICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OLIGURIA; OXYGEN SATURATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SHOCK; TANZANIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UTERUS RUPTURE; VALIDATION STUDY; WHO MATERNAL NEAR MISS CRITERIA;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TANZANIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84876180434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061248     Document Type: Article

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