Antepartum severe maternal morbidity: A population-based study of risk factors and delivery outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) is a key indicator of maternal health. Generally explored without distinction by the timing of the event, it mainly reflects postpartum SMM. Although antepartum (pre-labour) SMM presents specific challenges in its need to optimise the risk-benefit balance for both mother and foetus, its features remain inadequately explored.

Objectives

We explored risk factors of antepartum SMM and described adverse delivery and neonatal outcomes associated with antepartum SMM.

Methods

We designed a population-based nested case-control study based on data from the EPIMOMS study (119 maternity hospitals of 6 French regions, 2012-2013, N = 182,309 deliveries in the source cohort). This study included all women with antepartum SMM (cases, n = 60

SUBMITTER: Raineau M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9255856 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature