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Rise in maternal mortality in the Netherlands

  1. JM Schutte1,
  2. EAP Steegers2,
  3. NWE Schuitemaker3,
  4. JG Santema4,†,
  5. K de Boer5,
  6. M Pel6,
  7. G Vermeulen7,
  8. W Visser2,
  9. J van Roosmalen8,9,
  10. the Netherlands Maternal Mortality Committee

Article first published online: 26 NOV 2009

DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2009.02382.x

Issue

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Volume 117, Issue 4, pages 399–406, March 2010

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Schutte, J., Steegers, E., Schuitemaker, N., Santema, J., de Boer, K., Pel, M., Vermeulen, G., Visser, W., van Roosmalen, J. and the Netherlands Maternal Mortality Committee (2010), Rise in maternal mortality in the Netherlands. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 117: 399–406. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2009.02382.x

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Isala Klinieken Zwolle, Zwolle, the Netherlands

  2. 2

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Obstetrics and Prenatal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  3. 3

    Diakonessenhuis Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

  4. 4

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

  5. 5

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Rijnstate Hospital Arnhem, Arnhem, the Netherlands

  6. 6

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Amsterdam Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  7. 7

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Diaconessenhuis Meppel, the Netherlands

  8. 8

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

  9. 9

    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  1. †

    Deceased.

*Dr JM Schutte, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Isala Klinieken Zwolle, Dr Van Heesweg 2, PO Box 10400, 8025 AB Zwolle, the Netherlands. Email jokeschutte@yahoo.nl

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 8 FEB 2010
  2. Article first published online: 26 NOV 2009
  3. Accepted 3 August 2009. Published Online 26 November 2009.

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