Journal article
Ethnic variations in severe maternal morbidity in the UK- a case control study
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BACKGROUND: Previous studies showed a higher risk of maternal morbidity amongst black and other minority ethnic (BME) groups, but were unable to investigate whether this excess risk was concentrated within specific BME groups in the UK. Our aim was to analyse the specific risks and to investigate reasons for any disparity. METHODS: Unmatched case-control analysis using data from the United Kingdom Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS), February 2005-January 2013. Cases were 1,753 women who ex...
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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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Grant:
“Beyond maternal death: Improving the quality of maternity care through national studies of “near-miss” maternal morbidity” program (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
- Article number:
- e95086
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-03-23
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
- ISSN:
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1932-6203
- Source identifiers:
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463343
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:463343
- Deposit date:
- 2014-10-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Nair et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2014 Nair 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.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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