Canada's pregnancy-related mortality rates: Doing well but room for improvement

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2015, Pages E15-E22

  Verstraeten, Barbara S E ^a,b   Mijovic Kondejewski, Jane ^a   Takeda, Jun ^a,c   Tanaka, Satomi ^a,c   Olson, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DATA QUALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; JAPAN; MEDLINE; MIDWIFE; MORTALITY RATE; NETHERLANDS; ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; TRENDS;

CANADA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84939210898     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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