The WHO maternal near miss approach: consequences at Malawian District level.

INTRODUCTION: WHO proposes a set of organ-failure based criteria for maternal near miss. Our objective was to evaluate what implementation of these criteria would mean for the analysis of a cohort of 386 women in Thyolo District, Malawi, who sustained severe acute maternal morbidity according to dis...

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Main Authors: Thomas van den Akker, Jogchum Beltman, Joey Leyten, Beatrice Mwagomba, Tarek Meguid, Jelle Stekelenburg, Jos van Roosmalen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3556078?pdf=render