Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 389-400 , June 2009

Identifying barriers from home to the appropriate hospital through near-miss audits in developing countries

  • Véronique Filippi, PhD (Doctor)

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 (0)20 7927 2874; Fax: +44 (0)20 7637 4314.
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  • Fabienne Richard, RM, MSc, MS

      Affiliations

    • Quality & Human Resources Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, 155 Nationalestraat, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
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  • Isabelle Lange, BA, MSc, MS

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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  • Fatoumata Ouattara, PhD (Doctor)

      Affiliations

    • Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), UMR 912 (IRD-INSERM-U2), Equipe “Maladies Transmissibles, Systèmes de Santé, Sociétés” (Matss), Centre IRD de Ouagadougou, 688, avenue Professeur Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 01 BP 182 Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso

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PII: S1521-6934(09)00006-6

doi: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2008.12.006

Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 389-400 , June 2009

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