title: Perinatal mortality--an intervention study.
abstract: Perinatal mortality is high in rural hospitals in South Africa. In part this is due to less than optimal care. This study determined the perinatal mortality experienced by a rural hospital and its clinics. Avoidable causes of death are described and various intervention strategies that effectively and rapidly prevented such deaths, reducing perinatal mortality by one-third, are outlined.
authors.affiliation: Jane Furse Hospital, Lebowa, Tvl.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
mesh_terms: D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D013019:South Africa / Q000453:epidemiology