Journal article
Amniotic fluid embolism incidence, risk factors and outcomes: a review and recommendations.
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BACKGROUND: Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a rare but severe complication of pregnancy. A recent systematic review highlighted apparent differences in the incidence, with studies estimating the incidence of AFE to be more than three times higher in North America than Europe. The aim of this study was to examine population-based regional or national data from five high-resource countries in order to investigate incidence, risk factors and outcomes of AFE and to investigate whether any varia...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC pregnancy and childbirth Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 7
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2393
- ISSN:
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1471-2393
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:258419
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:258419
- Source identifiers:
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258419
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Knight et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- © 2012 Knight et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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