Building U.S. Capacity to Review and Prevent Maternal Deaths
| Autor: | Julie Zaharatos, David Goodman, Amy St. Pierre, Andria Cornell, Emilia Pasalic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Pregnancy
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine business.industry Review Committees General Medicine medicine.disease United States Primary Prevention Vital Statistics 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Maternal Mortality Environmental health Cause of Death Population Surveillance Maternal Death Medicine Humans Female 030212 general & internal medicine Risk of death business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of women's health (2002). 27(1) |
| ISSN: | 1931-843X |
| Popis: | In the United States, the risk of death during and up to a year after pregnancy from pregnancy-related causes increased from ∼10 deaths per 100,000 live births in the early 1990s to 17 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2013. While vital statistics-based surveillance systems are useful for monitoring trends and disparities, state and local maternal mortality review committees (MMRCs) are best positioned to both comprehensively assess deaths to women during pregnancy and the year after the end of pregnancy, and identify opportunities for prevention. Although the number of committees that exist has increased over the last several years, both newly formed and long-established committees struggle to achieve and sustain progress toward reviewing and preventing deaths. We describe the key elements of a MMRC; review a logic model that represents the general inputs, activities, and outcomes of a fully functional MMRC; and describe Building U.S. Capacity to Review and Prevent Maternal Deaths, a recent multisector initiative working to remove barriers to fully functional MMRCs. Increased standardization of review committee processes allows for better data to understand the multiple factors that contribute to maternal deaths and facilitates the collaboration that is necessary to eliminate preventable maternal deaths in the United States. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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