title: Maternal mortality. A survey of 118 maternal deaths and the avoidable factors involved.
abstract: From January 1973 to December 1975, 26 018 women were delivered at Edendale Hospital. During the same period, 4 478 patients aborted there. Maternal deaths during this period numbered 118, a mortality of 4,5/1 000 total births. Avoidable factors influencing the mortality may have been present in 28 (2387%).
mesh_terms: D000027:Abortion, Incomplete / Q000401:mortality; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000401:mortality; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000401:mortality; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000401:mortality; D018805:Sepsis / Q000401:mortality; D013019:South Africa