Table I.
Number of hospital stays for pregnancy, delivery or abortion, with report of severe obstetric complication in 2012 by the Belgian Hospital Discharge Register; compared to the number registered by the Belgian Obstetric Surveillance System (B.OSS).
| Severe obstetric complication | Peripartum hysterectomy* n |
Peripartum § embolisation n |
Eclampsia$ n |
Uterine rupture# |
| Belgian Hospital Discharge Register (MZG, RHM) | 57 | 24 | 54 | 116 |
| B.OSS | 44 | 53 | 24 | 41 |
* ICD-9-CM codes: 68.31,68.39, 68.41, 68.49, 68.51,68.59, 68.61, 68.69, 68.71, 68.79, 68.9
§ ICD-9-CM codes: 38.86, 39.79. The codes 68.24 and 68.25: uterine artery embolization (UAE) with coils and without coils, were not yet available.
$ ICD-9-CM codes : 642.6x
# ICD-9-CM codes : 665.0, 665.1