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Epidemiology
Healthcare registries are better measure of pregnancy-associated deaths
January 20th, 2005
According to published research from Finland, "To find maternal and pregnancy-related deaths, it is important that all pregnancy-associated deaths are identified." M. Gissler and colleagues at Finland's National Research & Development Center for Welfare & Health, STAKES Information Division, Helsinki, "[examined] the effect of data linkages between national healthcare registers and complete death certificate data on pregnancy-associated deaths." According to their study, "All deaths among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) in Finland during the period 1987-2000 (n=15,823) were identified from the Cause-of-Death Register and linked to the Medical...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-20)
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