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An Analysis of Pregnancy-Related Mortality in the KEMRI/CDC Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Western Kenya

BACKGROUND: Pregnancy-related (PR) deaths are often a result of direct obstetric complications occurring at childbirth. METHODS AND FINDINGS: To estimate the burden of and characterize risk factors for PR mortality, we evaluated deaths that occurred between 2003 and 2008 among women of childbearing...

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Autores principales: Desai, Meghna, Phillips-Howard, Penelope A., Odhiambo, Frank O., Katana, Abraham, Ouma, Peter, Hamel, Mary J., Omoto, Jackton, Macharia, Sheila, van Eijk, Annemieke, Ogwang, Sheila, Slutsker, Laurence, Laserson, Kayla F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3712942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23874741
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068733