Suboptimal care and maternal mortality among foreign-born women in Sweden: Maternal death audit with application of the 'migration three delays' model

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Esscher, Annika ^a   Binder Finnema, Pauline ^a   Bødker, Birgit ^b   Högberg, Ulf ^a   Mulic Lutvica, Ajlana ^a   Essén, Birgitta ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Foreign born; Low income country; Maternal death audit; Maternal migration effect; Structured implicit review

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INTERPRETER SERVICE; LANGUAGE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIGRATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEPSIS; SWEDEN; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; DEATH CERTIFICATES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL DEATH; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899476717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-141     Document Type: Article

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