Validating the WHO maternal near miss tool: comparing high- and low-resource settings

• Main Authors: Tom Witteveen (Author), Hans Bezstarosti (Author), Ilona de Koning (Author), Ellen Nelissen (Author), Kitty W. Bloemenkamp (Author), Jos van Roosmalen (Author), Thomas van den Akker (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background WHO proposed the WHO Maternal Near Miss (MNM) tool, classifying women according to several (potentially) life-threatening conditions, to monitor and improve quality of obstetric care. The objective of this study is to analyse merged data of one high- and two low-resource settings...