Deneux-Tharaux, Catherine MD, MPH; Carmona, Elodie MPH1,2; Bouvier-Colle, Marie-Hélene PhD1,2; Bréart, Gérard MD1,2
From the 1Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM), Unite Mixte de Recherche S149, Institut Federatif de Recherche 69, Epidemiological Research Unit on Perinatal and Women’s Health, Hopital Tenon, Paris, France; and 2Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, Paris, France.
The National Perinatal Surveys and the Confidential Enquiry on Maternal Deaths were partly funded by the French Ministry of Health.
The authors thank the national coordination of the French National Perinatal Surveys for providing data, and the National Committee of Experts on Maternal Mortality.
Corresponding author: Catherine Deneux-Tharaux, INSERM U149, Maternite Hopital Tenon, 4 rue de la Chine, 75020 Paris, France; e-mail: [email protected].