Assessing the consequences of changing childbirth
- 21 January 1995
- Vol. 310 (6973) , 144
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6973.144
Abstract
Nevertheless, standards of audit and data collection are falling, not rising. In the most recent report on maternal deaths6 medical information was missing in 4% of cases, compared with 0.4% in the previous report. The maternity hospital inpatient inquiry has been replaced by a hospital episode system, which is notoriously incomplete, and we now lack reliable figures for such basic …Keywords
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