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Obstetric complications and socio-demographic characteristics associated with severe maternal morbidity at Mbeya Zonal Referral Hospital, Tanzania: a case–control study [PDF]

Frontiers in Global Women's Health
IntroductionThe issue of severe maternal morbidity continues to pose a significant public health challenge globally and has recently emerged as a complementary metric for evaluating the quality of maternal health care.
Erick Justin Mbogoro, Erick Justin Mbogoro, Mathew Senga, Rebecca Mokeha   +3 more
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Trends and factors associated with delivery hospitalizations involving severe maternal morbidity in portuguese public hospitals: A population-based study (2010–2018) [PDF]

Scientific Reports
This study aimed to estimate Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM) rates and trends among public hospital deliveries in Portugal, 2010–2018, and identify associated factors.
Catarina Camarinha, Maria Miguel Oliveira, Miguel de Araújo Nobre, Cristina Furtado, Cecília Elias, Leonor Bacelar-Nicolau, Andreia Silva Costa, Paulo Jorge Nogueira   +7 more
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Measuring Severe Maternal Morbidity: Current Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities. [PDF]

Obstet Gynecol
There is broad consensus that measuring severe maternal morbidity (SMM) is critical to improving maternal health. Despite 50 years of effort by national, international, and professional organizations, determining the ideal SMM measure remains a work in progress.
Main EK, Creanga AA.
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Timely treatment of severe maternal hypertension and reduction in severe maternal morbidity [PDF]

Pregnancy Hypertension, 2018
To determine if timely treatment within 60 min of confirmed diagnosis of severe maternal hypertension with antihypertensive medications was associated with reduction in severe maternal morbidity.Medical records of women with severe hypertension (at least two severe blood pressures, systolic ≥160 mmHg and/or diastolic ≥110 mmHg, within 60 min) were ...
Naomi Greene, Sarah J Kilpatrick
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Antenatal Maternal Hemoglobin Level and Severe Maternal Morbidity. [PDF]

J Clin Med
Background/Objectives: Prior studies using administrative data have found that antenatal anemia is a risk factor for severe maternal morbidity (SMM). However, administrative definitions, including the commonly used definition from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have a poor positive predictive value for some SMM components.
Fabricant SP, Opara KN, Rau AR, Paul JV, Girma A, White JD, Blissett G, Sriprasert I, Korst LM, Chadwick NM.   +9 more
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Maternal Vulnerability Index and Severe Maternal Morbidity.

JAMA Netw Open
ImportanceFew studies have investigated the association of composite measures of neighborhood social determinants of health with severe maternal morbidity (SMM), and no research has examined this association for indices tailored to maternal health.ObjectiveTo examine the association of scores in the Maternal Vulnerability Index (MVI), a tool developed ...
Boghossian NS, Radack J, Passarella M, Phibbs CS, Greenberg LT, Buzas JS, Saade GR, Rogowski J, Lorch SA.   +8 more
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Impact of fertility treatment on severe maternal morbidity [PDF]

Fertility and Sterility, 2016
To determine if fertility treatment is associated with increased risk of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) compared with spontaneous pregnancies.Retrospective cohort study.Academic medical center.In 2012, 6,543 women delivered live births >20 weeks gestation at our center.
Erica T Wang, John A Ozimek, Naomi Greene   +2 more
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Comparison of severe maternal morbidity between pregnancy with subclinical hypothyroidism and overt hypothyroidism [PDF]

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
Introduction Maternal outcomes of pregnancy with subclinical hypothyroidism continue to be active areas of research interest. The objective of this study was to compare severe maternal morbidity at delivery between pregnant patients with subclinical ...
Laurel S. Aberle, Katherine E. Bayard, Kimberly M. Juarez, Jennifer A. Yao, Shinya Matsuzaki, Tatsuya Miyake, Aaron D. Masjedi, Rachel S. Mandelbaum, Caroline T. Nguyen, Joseph G. Ouzounian, Koji Matsuo   +10 more
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The association between different aspects of socioeconomic deprivation and severe maternal morbidity [PDF]

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
Introduction Living in a deprived neighborhood is associated with an increased risk of severe maternal morbidity (SMM), but the specific deprivation factors or individual SMM conditions driving this risk remain unclear.
Dorothea Geddes‐Barton, Rema Ramakrishnan, Raph Goldacre, Marian Knight   +3 more
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Mortality-weighted severe maternal morbidity: a novel approach to assessing maternal health outcomes [PDF]

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Objective The aim of this study is to develop a robust mortality-weighted severe maternal morbidity (SMM) composite measure that provides increased clinical granularity by measuring the individual and combined risk of inpatient mortality across multiple ...
Deborah Kilday, Drew Tatum, Michael Korvink, Kathy W. Belk, Joseph IV Beals, Ashley Finke, Raymond Perigard, Stephanie Martin, Richelle Marshall, Yue Jiang, Joseph G. Ibrahim, John Yeh, Dorothy A. Fink   +12 more
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