Fitzpatrick, KE;
Sellers, S;
Spark, P;
Kurinczuk, JJ;
Brocklehurst, P;
Knight, M;
(2012)
Incidence and risk factors for placenta accreta/increta/percreta in the UK: a national case-control study.
PLoS One
, 7
(12)
, Article e52893. 10.1371/journal.pone.0052893.
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Abstract
Placenta accreta/increta/percreta is associated with major pregnancy complications and is thought to be becoming more common. The aims of this study were to estimate the incidence of placenta accreta/increta/percreta in the UK and to investigate and quantify the associated risk factors.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Incidence and risk factors for placenta accreta/increta/percreta in the UK: a national case-control study. |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0052893 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052893 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2012 Fitzpatrick et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article presents independent research commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under the “Beyond maternal death: Improving the quality of maternity care through national studies of “near-miss” maternal morbidity” programme (Programme Grant RP-PG-0608-10038). The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1382784 |
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