Beyond the numbers : reviewing maternal deaths and complications to make pregnancy safer.

Every year some eight million women suffer pregnancy-related complications and over half a million die. In developing countries, one woman in 16 may die of pregnancy-related complications compared to one in 2800 in developed countries. Most of these deaths can be averted even where resources are lim...

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Corporate Author: World Health Organization. Reproductive Health and Research
Format: Software Book
Language:English
Published: Geneva : Dept. of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The approaches
  • Practical issues in implementing the approaches
  • Verbal autopsies : learning from reviewing deaths in the community
  • Facility-based maternal deaths review : learning from deaths occuring in health facilities
  • Confidential enquiries into maternal deaths
  • Reviewing severe maternal morbidity : learning from survivors of life-threatening compications
  • Clinical audit learning from systematic case reviews assessed against explicit criteria.