Emergency obstetric care: Making the impossible possible through task shifting
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Task shifting and sharing in Tigray, Ethiopia, to achieve comprehensive emergency obstetric care.
OBJECTIVE To assess the contribution of nonphysician clinicians (NPCs) to comprehensive emergency obstetric care (CEmOC) in Tigray, Ethiopia. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of the obstetric records of all women treated from January 1, 2006, to December 31, 2008, at the 11 hospitals and 2 health centers with CEmOC status in Tigray. Data were collected using 2 questionnaires, one c...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0020-7292
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.02.004