Perinatal death audits in a peri-urban hospital in Kampala, Uganda
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Perinatal death audits in a peri-urban hospital in Kampala, Uganda.
BACKGROUND The perinatal mortality of 70 deaths per 1,000 total births in Uganda is unacceptably high. Perinatal death audits are important for improvement of perinatal care and reduction of perinatal morality. We integrated perinatal death audits in routine care, and describe its effect on perinatal mortality rate at Nsambya Hospital. METHODS This was a retrospective descriptive study conduc...
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عنوان ژورنال: African Health Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1680-6905
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v12i4.6