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Confidential inquiries into maternal deaths.
In 1971 344 700 people sustained non-fatal injuries in road traffic accidents, and of these probably 8% (27 576) were back seat passengers. This figure is unlikely to be less in the subsequent years. Of these 27 576 passengers no fewer than half will have received moderate or severe injuries. Most authorities now accept that there is a dramatic reduction in the severity of injuries, in particul...
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BACKGROUND The aim was to establish a continuing district based confidential enquiry into deaths from asthma. METHODS A confidential enquiry was conducted in an English health district. Subjects comprised 24 residents of the Norwich health district aged between 16 and 65 years who had died between 1988 and 1991 with asthma as the principal cause of death. RESULTS Twenty one of the patients ...
متن کاملHospital based maternity care in ghana - findings of a confidential enquiry into maternal deaths.
SUMMARY BACKGROUND In Ghana, a universal free delivery policy was implemented to improve access to delivery care in health facilities, thereby improving access to skilled attendance and reducing maternal mortality. OBJECTIVE A confidential enquiry was conducted to ascertain if changes had occurred in the care provided by reviewing the care given to a sample of maternal deaths before and after...
متن کاملThe confidential enquiry into maternal deaths: its role and importance for pathologists.
Comparatively few pathologists seem to know of the existence of the confidential enquiry into maternal deaths and fewer still know anything of its aims or its methods of obtaining confidential information. As the success of any such enquiry depends greatly on the accuracy and completeness of necropsy, histological, and other laboratory reports a brief account of the report itself and the role o...
متن کاملThe Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths in South Africa: a case study.
The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) in South Africa has been operational for 15 years. This case study describes the process of notification and independent assessment of maternal deaths, predominantly in facilities. In the earlier years of the Enquiry, institutional maternal mortality ratio increased and was 176.2 per 100 000 live births in the 2008-10 triennium; thereafter it...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/55.5.367