Journal article
Partner experiences of "near-miss" events in pregnancy and childbirth in the UK: a qualitative study
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OBJECTIVE: Severe life-threatening complications in pregnancy that require urgent medical intervention are commonly known as "near-miss" events. Although these complications are rare (1 in 100 births), there are potentially 8,000 women and their families in the UK each year who live through a life-threatening emergency and its aftermath. Near-miss obstetric emergencies can be traumatic and frightening for women, and their impact can last for years. There is little research that has explored h...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0091735
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+ National Institute for Health Research
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“Beyond maternal death: Improving the quality of maternity care through national studies of ‘near-miss’ maternal morbidity” programme (Programme Grant RP-PG-0608-10038
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PloS one Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- e91735
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-02-14
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- Source identifiers:
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462289
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- English
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- pubs:462289
- Deposit date:
- 2014-05-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Hinton et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2014 Hinton et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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