Thanks for getting back to me. You are quite right RE section rates and
PPH, a very good point
I wish we had the equivalent midwifery stats for the UK! It would make my
life a sight easier!
Warm regards
Mandie
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Sent: 2009-11-04 19:39
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Subject: Re: National PPH rates
Hi Mandie. I am away from my computer so can't give you links but if you
google search for 'MMPO report' from New Zealand you will come up with
midwifery stats for several thousand births. If you can't find this I could
send you the link next week. There are also lots of stats in the Reports on
Maternity on the Ministry of Health wesite.
PPH rates must be increasing with the increasing caesarean rates - less than
500 ml loss would be very rare.
Regards
Maggie Banks
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On 5/11/2009, at 1:52 AM, Mandie Scamell <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hi,
> Hoping someone might be able to help me!
> Have come across interesting ethnographic data RE midwifery perception
> of PPH rates and am trying to test the perception against recorded
> national rates.
> Not with standing difficulties with definition and EBL etc. etc I am
> looking for rough ball park figures for the last 20 yrs. While
> mortality rates from PPH are easily available, I am having trouble
> locating stats on the trends in over all incident rates.
> Any suggestions where a stats illiterate researcher should look?
> Thanks
>
> Mandie
>
> PS my data suggests midwives think the rate is increasing.
> Surprising I think
> given the moving gate posts where a more symptomatic approach is
> applied in the defining process and where an appreciation that
> physiological third stage management is likely to be associated with
> an increase in initial loss (which, incidentally, is considered to be
> normal)
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