Association of Maternal Age With Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Canada

Morbidity and mortality associated with older maternal age at birth

WHO systematic review of maternal morbidity and mortality: the prevalence of severe acute maternal morbidity (near miss)

AIM: To determine the prevalence of severe acute maternal morbidity (SAMM) worldwide (near miss). METHOD: Systematic review of all available data. The methodology followed a pre-defined protocol, an extensive search strategy of 10 electronic databases as well as other sources. Articles were evaluated according to specified inclusion criteria. Data were extracted using data extraction instrument...

Maternal age and severe maternal morbidity: A population-based retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND One of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals of 2000 was to reduce maternal mortality by 75% in 15 y; however, this challenge was not met by many industrialized countries. As average maternal age continues to rise in these countries, associated potentially life-threatening severe maternal morbidity has been understudied. Our primary objective was to examine the association...

Nutrition and maternal morbidity and mortality.

Nearly 600 000 women die every year from pregnancy related conditions and the maternal mortality rates (MMR = deaths per 100 000 live births) in developing countries may be as high as 1000 compared with less than ten in industrialised countries. In the light of the striking impact of deficiencies of micronutrients such as vitamin A and zinc on immune function, morbidity and mortality in childre...

Severe Acute Maternal Morbidity and Postpartum Hemorrhage

For every woman who dies of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), many more suffer shortand long-term consequences even when well managed. During the 1990s, the concept of severe adverse maternal morbidity (SAMM) emerged in response to the need for a more sensitive marker of quality of maternity care than maternal death1,2. This concept and the accompanying acronym have the advantage of drawing attentio...