Beyond maternal death: improving the quality of maternal care through national studies of ‘near-miss’ maternal morbidity

Beyond maternal death: improving the quality of maternal care through national studies of ‘near-miss’ maternal morbidity

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 prev...

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Main Authors: Marian Knight, Colleen Acosta, Peter Brocklehurst, Anna Cheshire, Kathryn Fitzpatrick, Lisa Hinton, Mervi Jokinen, Bryn Kemp, Jennifer J Kurinczuk, Gwyneth Lewis, Anthea Lindquist, Louise Locock, Manisha Nair, Nishma Patel, Maria Quigley, Damien Ridge, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Susan Sellers, Anjali Shah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: NIHR Journals Library 2016-06-01
Series:Programme Grants for Applied Research
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3310/pgfar04090

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