Establishing a National Maternal Morbidity Outcome Indicator in England: A Population-Based Study Using Routine Hospital Data.

Although a decreasing trend in eclampsia in this study conforms to the findings of the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths which suggest that deaths due to hypertensive disorders during pregnancy (pre-eclampsia and eclampsia) are at the lowest ever recorded [ 23 ], the routine hospital data showed higher rates of eclampsia compared to that estimated by a previous UK wide epidemiological study (2.7 cases per 10,000 births) [ 22 ].

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