High-Risk Pregnancy
- 30 July 1964
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 271 (5) , 243-249
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196407302710508
Abstract
NATURE, in her lavish efforts to populate the earth, has devised such a miraculous process that despite many obstacles, most pregnancies, at least when measured in terms of perinatal mortality, have a successful outcome. This in itself lulls the public, the profession and the patient into a false sense of security and apathy that constitutes one of the most important barriers to progress.In the foreword to the recent British Perinatal Mortality Survey, Nixon writes as follows1:The perinatal death rate is also an index of the number of near deaths which may have occurred and present with defects . . .Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Responsibility of the Obstetrician in Perinatal MortalitySurgical Clinics of North America, 1953
- Fetal and Neonatal Mortality with Recommendations for ReductionAmerican Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1936