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Preventability of Severe Acute Maternal Morbidity

Obstetric Anesthesia Digest, 2014
We sought to assess potential preventability of severe acute maternal morbidity (SAMM) cases admitted to intensive-care units (ICUs) or high-dependency units (HDUs).Inclusion criteria were admissions to ICUs or HDUs of women who were pregnant or within 42 days of delivery in 4 District Health Board areas (accounting for a third of annual births in New ...
Beverley, Lawton, Evelyn Jane, MacDonald, Selina Ann, Brown, Leona, Wilson, James, Stanley, John David, Tait, Richard Alan, Dinsdale, Carolyn Lee, Coles, Stacie E, Geller   +8 more
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Severe maternal morbidity and the mode of delivery

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 2008
AbstractObjective. To define the rate of severe maternal morbidity in different modes of delivery and to find out if the rate of severe morbidity has changed over a 5‐year time span. Design. Retrospective register‐based study. Setting. Finnish Medical Birth Registry and Hospital Discharge Registry. Population.
Nanneli, Pallasmaa, Ulla, Ekblad, Mika, Gissler   +2 more
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Maternal mortality and severe morbidity in a migration perspective

Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2016
Among migrants in high-income countries, maternal mortality and severe morbidity generally occur more frequently as compared to host populations. There is marked variation between groups of migrants and host countries, with much elevated risks in some groups and no elevated risk at all in others.
van den Akker, T.H., van Roosmalen, J.
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Maternal Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity Surveillance in Canada

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, 2010
The Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System has provided a comprehensive review of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in Canada, and has identified several important limitations to existing national maternal data collection systems, including variability in the detail and quality of mortality data.
Victoria M, Allen, Melanie, Campbell, George, Carson, William, Fraser, Robert M, Liston, Mark, Walker, Jon, Barrett   +6 more
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Routine Multidisciplinary Review of Severe Maternal Morbidity Is Associated with a Reduction in Preventable Cases of Severe Maternal Morbidity

American Journal of Perinatology, 2020
Objective Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) has increased by 45% in the United States and is estimated to affect up to 1.5% of all deliveries. Research has not yet been conducted that demonstrates a benefit to multidisciplinary review of SMM.
John A. Ozimek, Naomi Greene, Andrew Geller, Mark Zakowski, Melissa S. Wong, Rachel Franco, Sarah J. Kilpatrick   +6 more
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A Comprehensive Analysis of the Costs of Severe Maternal Morbidity

Women's Health Issues, 2022
The objectives of this study were to include readmissions and physician costs in the estimates of total costs of severe maternal morbidity (SMM), to consider the effect of SMM on maternal length of stay (LOS), and to examine these for the more restricted definition of SMM that excludes transfusion-only cases.California linked birth certificate-patient ...
Claire M, Phibbs, Katy B, Kozhimannil, Stephanie A, Leonard, Scott A, Lorch, Elliott K, Main, Susan K, Schmitt, Ciaran S, Phibbs   +6 more
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Severe maternal morbidity and perinatal outcomes of multiple pregnancy in the Brazilian Network for the Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2017
AbstractObjectiveTo compare severe maternal complications (potentially life‐threatening conditions [PLTCs], maternal near miss [MNM], and maternal death) and perinatal outcomes between multiple and singleton pregnancies.MethodsA secondary analysis was undertaken using data from the Brazilian Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity ...
Danielly S, Santana, José G, Cecatti, Samira M, Haddad, Mary A, Parpinelli, Maria L, Costa, Fernanda G, Surita, Maria H, Sousa   +6 more
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[Severe maternal morbidity].

Journal de gynecologie, obstetrique et biologie de la reproduction, 2008
Severe maternal morbidity remains a public health issue in developing countries. We report in this retrospective study, patients' characteristics and frequency of pathologies responsible of severe maternal morbidity.Between January 1999 and December 2003, 119 cases of severe maternal pathologies of pregnancy and delivery occurred among 19,736 live ...
S, Ben Hamouda, H, Khoudayer, H, Ben Zina, A, Masmoudi, B, Bouguerra, R, Sfar   +5 more
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Stillbirth in cases of severe acute maternal morbidity

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2012
AbstractObjectiveTo determine the incidence and correlates of stillbirths among women with severe acute maternal morbidity (SAMM).MethodsIn an observational study of 728 women who had SAMM between January 2007 and December 2010 at a referral tertiary health facility in Benin, Nigeria, the incidence of stillbirth, and the clinical and demographic ...
Biodun N, Olagbuji, Michael C, Ezeanochie, Solomon, Igbaruma, Samson O, Okoigi, Adedapo B, Ande   +4 more
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Validation of criteria to identify severe maternal morbidity

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 2020
AbstractBackgroundEpidemiologic research on severe maternal morbidity often relies on a screening definition of the outcome because a gold standard approach requires medical record review.ObjectiveTo determine the validity of screening or identification criteria to classify cases of severe maternal morbidity using the definition of severe maternal ...
Katherine P. Himes, Lisa M. Bodnar
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