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    Maternal Mortality Rates at Hacettepe University Hospital/Turkey
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    Clinical Study
    VOLUME: 7 ISSUE: 3
    P: 206-209
    September 2006

    Maternal Mortality Rates at Hacettepe University Hospital/Turkey

    J Turk Ger Gynecol Assoc 2006;7(3):206-209
    Tülay Bozkurt
    Özgür Özyüncü
    Ali Ayhan
    1. Department Of Obstetrics And Gynecology, Faculty Of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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    Received Date: 28.11.2005
    Accepted Date: 03.05.2006
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    ABSTRACT

    Study Objective

    The aim of this study is to review the causes of maternal mortality and show trends in years at Hacettepe University Hospital in Turkey.

    Materials and Methods

    This study retrospectively analyses 128 maternal deaths between 1968 and 2004.

    Results

    During this period, the maternal mortality rate was 143.4/100000 live births. The most common direct, indirect and non-maternal causes of maternal mortality were infection, cardiac diseases and neoplasms respectively. The maternal mortality rate declined from 417/100000 live birth between 1968 and 1972 to 50/100000 live birth between 1998 and 2003.

    Conclusion

    When precautions to some problems that may lead maternal mortality taken this will lower the maternal mortality rates.

    Keywords: Maternal mortality, direct causes, indirect causes, non-maternal deaths

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