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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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.