Antenatal care packages with reduced visits and perinatal mortality: A secondary analysis of the WHO Antenatal Care Trial

Reproductive Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Vogel, Joshua P ^a,b   Habib, Ndema Abu ^b   Souza, João Paulo ^b   Gülmezoglu, A Metin ^b   Dowswell, Therese ^c   Carroli, Guillermo ^d   Baaqeel, Hassan S ^e   Lumbiganon, Pisake ^f   Piaggio, Gilda ^g   Oladapo, Olufemi T ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales   (Argentina)

^e KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^f KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^g Statistika Consultoria   (Brazil)

^h OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Developing country; Perinatal mortality; WHO

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VAGINA BLEEDING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARDS; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OFFICE VISITS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84876900366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-10-19     Document Type: Article

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