When getting there is not enough: a nationwide cross‐sectional study of 998 maternal deaths and 1451 near‐misses in public tertiary hospitals in a low‐income country

Oladapo, OT; Adetoro, OO; Ekele, BA; Chama, Calvin; Etuk, SJ; Aboyeji, AP; E. Onah, H.; Abasiattai, AM; Adamu, AN; Adegbola, Omololu; S. Adeniran, Abiodun; Aimakhu, CO; Akinsanya, Olufemi; Aliyu, LD; Ande, AB; Ashimi, Adewale; Bwala, Manu; Olusegun Fabamwo, Adetokunbo; Danazumi Geidam, Ado; Ifeanyichukwu Ikechebelu, Joseph; Imaralu, JO; Kuti, Oluwafemi; Nwachukwu, Duum; Omo‐Aghoja, Lawrence; Abubakar Tunau, Karima; Tukur, Jamilu; Umeora, OUJ; Umezulike, AC; Dada, OA; Tunçalp, Özge; P. Vogel, Joshua; Gülmezoglu, AM; Near‐miss and Maternal Death Surveillance Network, Nigeria

doi:10.1111/1471-0528.13450

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When getting there is not enough: a nationwide cross‐sectional study of 998 maternal deaths and 1451 near‐misses in public tertiary hospitals in a low‐income country

Published in BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology • May 14, 2015

Authors:

OT Oladapo

OO Adetoro

BA Ekele

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the burden and causes of life-threatening maternal complications and the quality of emergency obstetric care in Nigerian public tertiary hospitals. DESIGN: Nationwide cross-sectional study. SETTING: Forty-two tertiary hospitals. POPULATION: Women admitted for pregnancy, chi...

Subject

Medicine

Eclampsia

Case fatality rate

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