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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)