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Peripartum hysterectomy in a Nigerian university hospital: An assessment of severe maternal outcomes with the maternal severity index model

open access: yesNigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2016
Background: Peripartum hysterectomy is life-saving and a life-threatening criterion of the World Health Organization (WHO) maternal near-miss concept.
Babasola O Okusanya   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using audit to enhance quality of maternity care in resource limited countries: lessons learnt from rural Africa. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Although clinical audit is an important instrument for quality care improvement, the concept has not yet been adequately taken on board in rural settings in most resource limited countries where the problem of maternal mortality is immense.
Hagen, J.P.   +21 more
core   +3 more sources

Severe maternal morbidity and near misses in tertiary hospitals, Kelantan, Malaysia: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2016
Background Severe maternal conditions have increasingly been used as alternative measurements of the quality of maternal care and as alternative strategies to reduce maternal mortality.
Mohd Noor Norhayati   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Association between Adequate Prenatal Care and Severe Maternal Morbidity : A Population-based Cohort Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Purpose: This study identified the relationship between adequate prenatal care and severe maternal morbidity among delivered women. Methods: Data were extracted from the Korean National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort for 91,767 cases of
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core   +1 more source

Reviewing the past to inform the future: an 8-year review of severe maternal morbidityAJOG Global Reports at a Glance

open access: yesAJOG Global Reports, 2022
BACKGROUND: Maternal morbidity is becoming a key indicator used to compare health systems in the developed world and also to inform clinical practice. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate a single center experience of severe maternal morbidity over an
Claire M. McCarthy, MB, BCh, BAO   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Standardized Severe Maternal Morbidity Review [PDF]

open access: yesObstetrics & Gynecology, 2014
Severe maternal morbidity and mortality have been rising in the United States. To begin a national effort to reduce morbidity, a specific call to identify all pregnant and postpartum women experiencing admission to an intensive care unit or receipt of 4 or more units of blood for routine review has been made. While advocating for review of these cases,
Sarah J, Kilpatrick   +13 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Metasynthesis: Experiences of Women with Severe Maternal Morbidity and Their Perception of the Quality of Health Care. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
To explore the experiences of women with severe maternal morbidity and their perception of the quality of health care.The exploration of factors associated with severe maternal morbidity has emerged as an alternative strategy in reducing maternal ...
Mohd Noor Norhayati   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Radiation Therapy on Physical and Psychosocial Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Joint Report From the Children's Oncology Group AYA and Radiation Oncology Committees

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rates of cancer among adolescents and young adults (AYA), age 15–39 years, are increasing. Consequently, radiation oncologists are treating more AYAs who have diagnoses spanning both pediatric and adult practices. Compared to pediatric and older adult patients, AYAs face a unique set of challenges.
Hesham Elhalawani   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early Clinical, Imaging, and Pathological Characteristics of SRPK3/TTN‐Digenic Myopathy

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective SRPK3/TTN‐digenic myopathy was recently established as a skeletal muscle myopathy caused by digenic inheritance. This study characterizes the early clinical presentation of SRPK3/TTN‐digenic myopathy in one previously reported and seven newly identified pediatric patients.
Rotem Orbach   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yes, 2016
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 ...
Shah, A.   +78 more
core   +1 more source

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