Maternal mortality and severe morbidity from sepsis in the Netherlands

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 647-653

  Kramer, Hannah M C ^a   Schutte, Joke M ^b   Zwart, Joost J ^c   Schuitemaker, Nico W E ^d   Steegers, Eric A P ^e   Van Roosmalen, Jos ^c,f  

^a MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^b ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY   (Netherlands)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genital tract sepsis; Maternal morbidity; Maternal mortality; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; AGING; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LABOR INDUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENINGITIS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; STILLBIRTH; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 66149133662     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016340902926734     Document Type: Article

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