Risk factors for hospital admission related to excessive and/or prolonged postpartum vaginal blood loss after the first 24 h following childbirth

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 392-402

  Marchant, Sally ^a,e   Alexander, Jo ^a   Thomas, Peter ^b   Garcia, Jo ^c   Brocklehurst, Peter ^d   Keene, Janet ^d  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b POOLE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e MIDIRS (Midwives Information and Resource Service)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Maternal smoking; Method of delivery; Previous PPH; Secondary postpartum haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HOME DELIVERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LABOR INDUCTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNITY WARD; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; METRITIS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PARITY; POSTNATAL CARE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; UNITED KINGDOM; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PARITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33747361076     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2006.00743.x     Document Type: Article

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