The quality of clinical maternal and neonatal healthcare a strategy for identifying 'routine care signal functions'

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Brenner, Stephan ^a   De Allegri, Manuela ^a   Gabrysch, Sabine ^a   Chinkhumba, Jobiba ^b   Sarker, Malabika ^a   Muula, Adamson S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING RISK; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS MONITORING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTRAPARTUM CARE; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN DISTRESS; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN MONITORING; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK MONITORING; RISK PREVENTION; SOUTH AFRICA; ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; MALAWI; MANPOWER; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERINATAL CARE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALAWI; PERINATAL CARE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84928902750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123968     Document Type: Article

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