The project to understand and research preterm pregnancy outcomes and stillbirths in South Asia (PURPOSe): a protocol of a prospective, cohort study of causes of mortality among preterm births and stillbirths

• Main Authors: Elizabeth M. McClure (Author), Sarah Saleem (Author), Shivaprasad S. Goudar (Author), Sangappa Dhaded (Author), G. Guruprasad (Author), Yogesh Kumar (Author), Shiyam Sunder Tikmani (Author), Masood Kadir (Author), Jamal Raza (Author), Haleema Yasmin (Author), Janet L. Moore (Author), Jean Kim (Author), Carla Bann (Author), Lindsay Parlberg (Author), Anna Aceituno (Author), Waldemar A. Carlo (Author), Robert M. Silver (Author), Laura Lamberti (Author), Janna Patterson (Author), Robert L. Goldenberg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In South Asia, where most stillbirths and neonatal deaths occur, much remains unknown about the causes of these deaths. About one-third of neonatal deaths are attributed to prematurity, yet the specific conditions which cause these deaths are often unclear as is the etiology of s...