Overview - third report on confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in South Africa 2002-2004 : overview
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Extracted from text ... Obstetrics & Gynaecology Forum August 2006 79
OVERVIEW OG16:79-82
Correspondence:
Prof RC Pattinson
email: rcpattin@kalafong.up.ac.za
Introduction
Confidential enquiries into maternal deaths (CEMD) can be
defined as "a systematic multidisciplinary anonymous
investigation of all or a representative sample of maternal
deaths occurring at an area, region (state) or national level
which identifies the numbers, causes and avoidable or
remediable factors associated with them. Through the lessons
learnt from each woman's death, and through aggregating the
data, confidential enquiries provide evidence of where the
main problems in overcoming maternal mortality lie and an
analysis of what can be ..