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Maternal near misses: need for solid metrics and estimates

open access: yesThe Lancet Global Health
Kapila, Jayaratne, Dulani, Samaranayake
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MATERNAL NEAR MISS - INDICATOR OF MATERNAL HEALTH

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, 2023
Since maternal mortality is a devastating event, maternal near miss has been used as a proxy indicator for measuring maternal health. Maternal near miss (MNM) refers to a woman who nearly died but survived of complications during pregnancy, childbirth or within 42days of termination of pregnancy.
Shivani Jadhav   +3 more
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Maternal Near Miss

2020
A significant contribution to reduced maternal mortality worldwide includes programmes of systematic surveillance and investigation of maternal deaths. However, maternal deaths represent the tip of the iceberg. Near miss events occur significantly more frequently than maternal death, presenting an opportunity for examination of approximately 8000 cases
D. N. Lucas, K. J. Murray
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Ethnic differences in maternal near miss

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2017
To evaluate the association between ethnic differences and the occurrence of maternal near miss (MNM) in the Amazon and Northeast regions of Brazil.This is a secondary analysis of a national cross-sectional study focused on the assessment of care to pregnancy, childbirth, and infants under 1 year of age.
Karayna Gil, Fernandes   +5 more
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The impact of migration background on maternal near miss

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2019
(1) To evaluate the association between immigration background and the occurrence of maternal near miss (MNM). (2) To identify medical co-factors, health-care utilization, and health-care disparities as explanations of a possibly higher risk of MNM among immigrants.We compared perinatal outcomes between immigrant women (first- or second-generation ...
Matthias David   +5 more
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Near Miss Maternal Mortality in a Multiethnic Population

Annals of Epidemiology, 2011
To determine the impact of ethnicity on "near miss"/severe obstetric morbidity in a multi-ethnic, tertiary care population.We carried out a cross-sectional analysis using birth data for 12,774 women with Medicaid who gave birth between January 1994 and January 2005 at Duke University.
Haywood L, Brown   +4 more
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Near-miss Maternal Mortality

Obstetric Anesthesia Digest, 2012
Evaluation of "near-miss" maternal mortality is a robust surveillance method to assess the quality of obstetric care and determinants of poor maternal outcome. To evaluate near-miss maternal mortality, we examined patient characteristics and maternal and neonatal outcomes for an obstetric population admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in a tertiary
Maria J, Small   +5 more
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A cautionary tale of a maternal near miss

Current Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1996
This case report describes a colporrhexis (rupture of the vaginal vault) with a ‘bucket-handle' tear of the vagina. This followed an uncomplicated Caesarian section (CS) for failure of breech descent in the second stage of labour. It emphasizes that the vagina must be considered as a source of bleeding when confronted with genital tract haemorrhage ...
E.H. Kevelighan, H. Narayan
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