Black-white differences in severe maternal morbidity and site of care

Severe acute maternal morbidity and maternal death audit--a rapid diagnostic tool for evaluating maternal care.

OBJECTIVE To analyse severe acute maternal morbidity (SAMM) and maternal mortality in the Pretoria region over a 2-year period (2000-2001). SETTING Public hospitals in the Pretoria region, South Africa, serving a mainly indigent urban population. METHODS A descriptive study was performed whereby women with SAMM and maternal deaths were identified at daily audit meetings and an audit form wa...

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...

Severe maternal morbidity: screening and review.

This document builds upon recommendations from peer organizations and outlines a process for identifying maternal cases that should be reviewed. Severe maternal morbidity is associated with a high rate of preventability, similar to that of maternal mortality. It also can be considered a near miss for maternal mortality because without identification and treatment, in some cases, these condition...

severe acute maternal morbidity (samm) in postpartum period requiring tertiary hospital care

abstract background: postpartum period is the critically important part of obstetric care but most neglected period for majority of pakistani women. only life threatening complications compel them to seek for tertiary hospital care. we describe the nature of these obstetric morbidities in order to help policymakers in improving prevailing situation. objective: to find out the frequency and caus...

Socioeconomic differences in severe back morbidity.