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Beyond maternal death: improving the quality of maternal care through national studies of ‘near-miss’ maternal morbidity
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Background
Studies of maternal mortality have been shown to result in important improvements to women’s health. It is now recognised that in countries such as the UK, where maternal deaths are rare, the study of near-miss severe maternal morbidity provides additional information to aid disease prevention, treatment and service provision.
Objectives
To (1) estimate the incidence of specific near-miss morbidities; (2) assess the contribution of existing risk factors...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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National Institute for Health Research
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health Research Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Programme Grants for Applied Research Journal website
- Issue:
- 9
- Host title:
- Programme Grants for Applied Research
- Publication date:
- 2016-06-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-01-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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2050-4322 and 2050-4330
- Source identifiers:
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631692
- Paper number:
- 4
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pubs:631692
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- pubs:631692
- Deposit date:
- 2016-12-06
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- Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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