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Provision of emergency obstetric care at secondary level in a conflict setting in a rural area of Afghanistan – is the hospital fulfilling its role?

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-018-0137-1

Published Online: 2018-01-22

Published Print: 2018-12

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Authors

Lagrou, Daphne http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1725-3798
Zachariah, Rony

Bissell, Karen

Van Overloop, Catherine

Nasim, Masood

Wagma, Hamsaya Nikyar

Kakar, Shafiqa

Caluwaerts, Séverine

De Plecker, Eva

Fricke, Renzo

Van den Bergh, Rafael
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Article History

Received: 18 November 2016

Accepted: 12 January 2018

First Online: 22 January 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Permission to carry out the study was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of the Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan. The study was also approved by the Ethics Advisory Group of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France and the Médecins Sans Frontières (Geneva, Switzerland) Ethics Review Board criteria for studies using routinely collected data. As this was a record review study, informed patient consent was not required.

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