Changes in the number and causes of maternal deaths after the introduction of pregnancy checkbox on the death certificate in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Ching-Yi Lin (Author), Pei-Yin Tsai (Author), Liang-Yi Wang (Author), Ginden Chen (Author), Pao-Lin Kuo (Author), Meng-Chih Lee (Author), Tsung-Hueh Lu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: To examine changes in the number and causes of maternal deaths after the introduction of pregnancy checkbox on the death certificate in January 2014 in Taiwan. Materials and methods: We first used the cause-of-death (COD) mortality data for years 2010 through 2017 to examine the number of...