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. 2016 Dec;42(12):1637-1643.
doi: 10.1111/jog.13136. Epub 2016 Oct 8.

Recommendations for saving mothers' lives in Japan: Report from the Maternal Death Exploratory Committee (2010-2014)

Junichi Hasegawa  1 , Tomoaki Ikeda  2 , Akihiko Sekizawa  3 , Hiroaki Tanaka  2 , Masamitsu Nakamura  3 , Shinji Katsuragi  4 , Kazuhiro Osato  2 , Kayo Tanaka  2 , Takeshi Murakoshi  5 , Masahiko Nakata  6 , Isamu Ishiwata  7 ; Maternal Death Exploratory Committee in Japan and the Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
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Recommendations for saving mothers' lives in Japan: Report from the Maternal Death Exploratory Committee (2010-2014)

Junichi Hasegawa et al. J Obstet Gynaecol Res. 2016 Dec.

Abstract

To make recommendations for saving mothers' lives, issues related to maternal deaths including diseases, causes, treatments, and hospital and regional systems are analyzed by the Maternal Death Exploratory Committee in Japan. In this report, we present ten clinical important recommendations based on the analysis of maternal deaths between 2010 and 2014 in Japan.

Keywords: blood transfusion; emergency medicine; maternal death; maternal mortality rate; postpartum hemorrhage.

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