Abstract
In recent years local perinatal mortality experience has been on the agenda of most health district management teams. Nationally available data have been criticised for failing to take into account determinants beyond the influence of existing health services such as lethal congenital malformations. In response to local concern about perinatal mortality rate in Oxfordshire AHA(T) the crude data were refined by using simple epidemiological techniques. This failed to show that a high proportion of general practitioner deliveries constituted a major perinatal risk.
Full text
PDF
Selected References
These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.
- Chalmers I. The search for indices. Lancet. 1979 Nov 17;2(8151):1063–1065. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(79)92455-3. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Fryer J. G., Ashford J. R. Trends in perinatal and neonatal mortality in England and Wales 1960-69. Br J Prev Soc Med. 1972 Feb;26(1):1–9. doi: 10.1136/jech.26.1.1. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Marsh G. N. Obstetric audit in general practice. Br Med J. 1977 Oct 15;2(6093):1004–1006. doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.6093.1004. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- Taylor G. W., Edgar W., Taylor B. A., Neal D. G. How safe is general practitioner obstetrics? Lancet. 1980 Dec 13;2(8207):1287–1289. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(80)92348-x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]