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Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5.
Margaret C. Hogan,Margaret C. Hogan,Kyle J Foreman,Mohsen Naghavi,Stephanie Y. Ahn,Mengru Wang,Susanna M Makela,Alan D. Lopez,Rafael Lozano,Christopher J L Murray +9 more
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Although only 23 countries are on track to achieve a 75% decrease in MMR by 2015, countries such as Egypt, China, Ecuador, and Bolivia have been achieving accelerated progress and substantial, albeit varied, progress has been made towards MDG 5.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2010-05-08. It has received 2163 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sisterhood method & Obstetric transition.read more
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Missing Women: Age and Disease: A Correction
Stephan Klasen,Sebastian Vollmer +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that the analysis is entirely dependent on a highly implausible reference standard that is inappropriately applied to settings where the overall disease and mortality environment differ greatly; the attempt to control for the disease environment by the authors is not able to address these issues.
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Therapeutic and pharmaco-biological, dose-ranging multicentre trial to determine the optimal dose of TRAnexamic acid to reduce blood loss in haemorrhagic CESarean delivery (TRACES): study protocol for a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Anne-Sophie Bouthors,Benjamin Hennart,Emmanuelle Jeanpierre,Anne-Sophie Baptiste,Imen Saidi,Elodie Simon,Damien Lannoy,Alain Duhamel,Delphine Allorge,Sophie Susen +9 more
TL;DR: The TRACES trial is expected to give the first pharmacokinetics data to determinate the optimal dose of tranexamic acid to reduce blood loss and inhibit fibrinolysis in hemorrhagic cesarean section.
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Maternal mortality ratio in China from 1990 to 2019: trends, causes and correlations
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors assessed the trends in the maternal mortality ratio, the causes of maternal death, and the correlations between maternal mortality ratios and total health financing composition in China from 1990 to 2019.
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The Millennium Development Goals Report
TL;DR: Ban et al. as discussed by the authors stated that the global community cannot turn its back on the poor and the vulnerable, and that the goals are within reach, and even in the very poor countries, with strong political commitment and sufficient and sustained funding.
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Locally Weighted Regression: An Approach to Regression Analysis by Local Fitting
TL;DR: Locally weighted regression as discussed by the authors is a way of estimating a regression surface through a multivariate smoothing procedure, fitting a function of the independent variables locally and in a moving fashion analogous to how a moving average is computed for a time series.
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CLARIFY: Software for Interpreting and Presenting Statistical Results
TL;DR: Clarify is a program that uses Monte Carlo simulation to convert the raw output of statistical procedures into results that are of direct interest to researchers, without changing statistical assumptions or requiring new statistical models.
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Maternal mortality: who, when, where, and why
Carine Ronsmans,Wendy J. Graham +1 more
TL;DR: Targeting of interventions to the most vulnerable--rural populations and poor people--is essential if substantial progress is to be achieved by 2015, and local variation can be important.