Underreporting of major obstetric haemorrhage in the Netherlands

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 118-122

  Zwart, J J ^a   Yazdani, S T ^a   Harvey, M S ^a   De Vries, R R P ^a   Van Roosmalen, J ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Capture recapture method; Major of obstetric haemorrhage; Severe maternal morbidity; Underreporting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DELIVERY; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MEDICAL RECORD; NETHERLANDS; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; LABORATORIES; NETHERLANDS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 77449089610     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2009.00967.x     Document Type: Article

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