Women and Birth
Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 97-104 , September 2009

Maternal mortality: What can we learn from stories of postpartum haemorrhage?

  • Caroline Homer

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Midwifery, Child & Family Health, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 9514 4834; fax: +61 2 9514 4835.
    • ,
  • Vanessa Clements

      Affiliations

    • Midwifery Practice Development & Research, South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service, Australia
    • ,
  • Nolan McDonnell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Western Australia, Australia
    • ,
  • Michael Peek

      Affiliations

    • Nepean Clinical School, University of Sydney, Nepean Hospital, NSW, Australia
    • ,
  • Elizabeth Sullivan

      Affiliations

    • Perinatal and Reproductive Epidemiology Research Unit (Incorporating AIHW National Perinatal Statistics Unit), School of Women's and Children's Health, University of New South Wales, Australia

Received 17 September 2008 ,Revised 30 January 2009 ,Accepted 1 February 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2009.02.002

Women and Birth
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