His team looks at all deaths — not
just maternal mortality — so if those deaths had been misclassified elsewhere, they likely would have picked them up and seen a large shift in those numbers following the ICD and check - box transitions, he says.
The bill she sponsored — creating a committee for the next five years to study not
just maternal mortality but also life - threatening complications, or severe maternal morbidity — sailed through the legislature, in part because of a change in governors.
Not exact matches
Just as we shouldn't condemn all hospitals or all drs for single (or in most cases multiple) mistakes or otherwise that lead to the
maternal and infant
mortality and morbidity, we should not hold up a single death in the UC community and use it to condemn a way of thinking.
If you bothered to look at the evidence (for example, the actual causes of
maternal mortality) even
just a tiny bit you would be aware of this.
Is the increased
maternal mortality caused by the high C - Section rate, or
just associated with it and caused by the same factors, such as obesity, GD, high blood pressure, multiples,
maternal age, and so on?
I wonder
maternal mortality among low risk women is
just so rare that there weren't any in the data that she looked at?
The fact that she leaves out the
maternal mortality numbers makes me suspicious in
just the same way that it did when MANA published their morbidity stats but left out the perinatal
mortality stats.
Just in Cambodia, midwife - attended births have slashed
maternal mortality by two - thirds since 1990!
In fact, if one considered
just three factors (
maternal education,
maternal prenatal alcohol or tobacco, and marital status) one could predict to a high degree postneonatal
mortality: children born to unmarried women with lower education and evidence of prenatal drug use had a postneonatal
mortality of about 30 per 1000 live births (similar to Ivory Coast); children born to women with none of these risk factors had a postneonatal
mortality of about 2 per 1000 live births (similar to Norway); that is, children in this latter category almost never die despite evidence from PRAMS surveys that they are as likely to co-sleep with their parents.