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Confidential enquiries into maternal mortality

  1. JJ Walker

Article first published online: 8 FEB 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2009.02478.x

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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Volume 117, Issue 4, pages 379–381, March 2010

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Walker, J. (2010), Confidential enquiries into maternal mortality. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 117: 379–381. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2009.02478.x

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Leeds, UK

*Prof. James Walker, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Level 8, Clinical Science Building, St James University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TL, UK. Email j.j.walker@leeds.ac.uk

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 8 FEB 2010
  2. Article first published online: 8 FEB 2010
  3. Accepted 26 November 2009.

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