Maternal mortality: Time for national action

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 735-736

  Main, Elliott K ^a   Menard, M Kathryn ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASEPSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CESAREAN SECTION; CONFIDENTIALITY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OBESITY; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; OBSTETRICIAN; PREECLAMPSIA; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNITED STATES;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84889818627     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182a7dc8c     Document Type: Editorial

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