Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: A quality metric for evaluating timely treatment of severe hypertension
| Autor: | Elliott K. Main, Afshan B. Hameed, John R. Allbert, C. Andrew Combs, Christie Allen, Isabel Taylor |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Gestational hypertension
medicine.medical_specialty Statement (logic) business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Hypertension in Pregnancy Obstetrics and Gynecology macromolecular substances Hypertension Pregnancy-Induced medicine.disease Maternal-fetal medicine Patient safety Pregnancy medicine Humans Quality (business) Maternal death Female Metric (unit) Patient Safety Intensive care medicine business Antihypertensive Agents media_common |
| Zdroj: | American journal of obstetrics and gynecology. 226(2) |
| ISSN: | 1097-6868 |
| Popis: | Severe hypertension in pregnancy is a medical emergency. Although expeditious treatment within 30 to 60 minutes is recommended to reduce the risk of maternal death or severe morbidity, treatment is often delayed by more than 1 hour. In this statement, we propose a quality metric that facilities can use to track their rates of timely treatment of severe hypertension. We encourage facilities to adopt this metric so that future reports from different facilities will be based on a uniform definition of timely treatment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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