Abstract
In the 20th century in all countries, medical and social resources have increasingly been devoted to providing a maternity service which is intended to make the birth safer for mother and child. But there has never been a concomitant allocation of statistical resources to measure to what extent the service provided, as a whole or in its constituent parts, has achieved its intended objective. Such evaluation as is available has had to be done by indirect methods. It is fragmentary but the pieces can be fitted together to indicate a consistent and convincing picture.
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Tew, M. (1995). Evaluating the results of maternity care: statistical instruments. In: Safer Childbirth?. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2973-0_6
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