prof. dr. Thomas van den Akker

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• 2025

  Impact of Mobile Health (mHealth) Use by Community Health Workers on the Utilization of Maternity Care in Rural Malawi: A Time Series Analysis [Response to Letter]

  Kachimanga, C., Ng’ambi, W. F., Kazinga, D., Ndarama, E., Amulele, M. A., Munyaneza, F., Abejirinde, I. O. O., Akker, T. V. D. & Kulinkina, A. V., 2025, In: International Journal of Women's Health. 17, 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic

  Open Access

• The Impact of Mobile Health (mHealth) in Maternal Health Services [Response to Letter]

  Kachimanga, C., Ng’ambi, W. F., Kazinga, D., Ndarama, E., Amulele, M. A., Munyaneza, F., Abejirinde, I. O. O., van den Akker, T. & Kulinkina, A. V., 2025, In: International Journal of Women's Health. 17, p. 1247-1248 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic

  Open Access
• 2024

  Variations Over Time in Mode of Birth and Perinatal Outcomes in Women With One Previous Cesarean in the Netherlands: A 20-Year Population-Based Study

  Koorn, I., Vis, L. C., Verschueren, K. J. C., Rosman, A. N. & van den Akker, T., Dec 2024, In: Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey. 79, 12, p. 699-701 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic

  • Cesarean Section 100%

• Monoclonal RhD prophylaxis: high time to evaluate efficacy

  AFRICARhE consortium, 8 Mar 2024, In: The Lancet. 403, 10429, p. 806-807 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic

• Prioritising actions to address stagnating maternal mortality rates globally

  International Network of Obstetric Survey Systems, Feb 2024, In: The Lancet. 403, 10425, p. 417-419 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic
• 2022

  WHO next-generation partograph: revolutionary steps towards individualised labour care?

  Maaløe, N., van Roosmalen, J., Dmello, B., Kwast, B., van den Akker, T., Housseine, N., Kujabi, M., Meguid, T. & Kidanto, H., Apr 2022, In: BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 129, 5, p. 682-684 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic

  • Prematurity 100%
  • Cesarean Section 100%
  • Labor Stage 1 100%
  • Uterine Cervix Dilatation 100%

• Severe COVID-19 in pregnancy is almost exclusively limited to unvaccinated women – time for policies to change

  Engjom, H., van den Akker, T., Aabakke, A., Ayras, O., Bloemenkamp, K., Donati, S., Cereda, D., Overtoom, E. & Knight, M., Feb 2022, In: The Lancet. Regional Health, Europe. 13, p. 1-3 3 p., 100313.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic

  Open Access

  • Infection 100%
  • Incentive 100%
  • Drug Therapy 100%
  • Adverse Outcome 100%
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 100%
• 2021

  Trends in population health and demography

  Maaløe, N., Housseine, N., Meguid, T., Tellier, S., van Roosmalen, J., Meyrowitsch, D. W. & van den Akker, T., 14 Aug 2021, In: The Lancet. 398, 10300, p. 579-580 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic

  Open Access

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• 2020

  Impact of COVID-19 on maternal and child health

  Dmello, B. S., Housseine, N., van den Akker, T., van Roosmalen, J. & Maaløe, N., Oct 2020, In: The Lancet Global Health. 8, 10, 1 p., e1259.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic

  Open Access
• 2019

  The impact of reclassifying suicides in pregnancy and in the postnatal period on maternal mortality ratios

  Lommerse, K., Knight, M., Nair, M., Deneux-Tharaux, C. & van den Akker, T., 1 Aug 2019, In: BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 126, 9, p. 1088-1092 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic

• Lessons learnt from anonymized review of cases of peripartum hysterectomy by international experts: A qualitative pilot study

  on behalf of the Nordic Obstetric Surveillance System and the International Network of Obstetric Survey Systems, Aug 2019, In: Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 98, 8, p. 955-957 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic

  • Hysterectomy 100%
  • Narrative 66%
  • Quality Improvement 66%
  • Childbirth 33%
  • Maternal Care 33%
• 2017

  Maternal mortality: direct or indirect has become irrelevant

  van den Akker, T., Nair, M., Goedhart, M., Schutte, J., Schaap, T. & Knight, M., 1 Dec 2017, In: The Lancet Global Health. 5, 12, p. e1181-e1182

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic

  Open Access
• 2013

  Commentary on 'Increased risk of severe maternal morbidity (near-miss) among immigrant women in Sweden: A population register-based study'

  Van Roosmalen, J. & Van Den Akker, T., 1 Dec 2013, In: BJOG : An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 120, 13, 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic

  Open Access
• 2010

  White blood

  Lommerse, K., Mwagomba, B. & van den Akker, T., 8 Mar 2010, In: The Lancet. 375, 9717, 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment / Letter to the editor › Academic