Prevention of postpartum haemorrhage: a distributional approach for analysis

Abstract Background There is empirical evidence that measured postpartum blood loss has a lognormal distribution. This feature can be used to analyze events of the type ‘blood loss greater than a certain cutoff point’ using a lognormal approach, which takes into account all the quantitative observat...

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Main Authors: Gilda Piaggio, José Ferreira de Carvalho, Fernando Althabe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:Reproductive Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12978-018-0530-7