Prevalence of Severe Maternal Morbidity and Factors Associated With Maternal Mortality in Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Severe maternal morbidity is defined by potentially life-threatening conditions. The association between the number of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) indicators and maternal death is not known.

Objective

To quantify the association between the number of SMM indicators and maternal mortality.

Design, setting, and participants

This population-based cohort study used provincial databases for data on all live birth and stillbirth hospital deliveries among women in Ontario, Canada, from April 1, 2002, to February 18, 2017. Excluded from this cohort were those with invalid identification number, non-Ontario residency, maternal age younger than 10 years or older than 55 years or unknown, or gestational age fewer than 20 weeks or unknown as well as any out-of-hosp

SUBMITTER: Ray JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324398 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature