Sub-Saharan Africa's mothers, newborns, and children: where and why do they die?

What it found

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Who cites it

253 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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15. Predicting resource-dependent maternal health outcomes at a referral hospital in Zanzibar using patient trajectories and mathematical modeling.PloS one · 2019
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16. Ghana's Ensure Mothers and Babies Regular Access to Care (EMBRACE) program: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.Trials · 2015
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18. Can traditional birth attendants be trained to accurately identify septic infants, initiate antibiotics, and refer in a rural African setting?Global health, science and practice · 2014
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Authors and funding

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Abstract

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