Obstetric Anesthesia Digest · 1989 · 67 citations · 0 references
Public HealthMaternal HealthObstetricsMaternal Health DisparitiesMaternal MortalityWomen's HealthCauses Of Maternal MortalityMaternal Death SurveillanceMaternal Mortality MeasurementMaternal Mortality SurveillanceMortality AnalysisPregnancyAge-adjusted RateMaternal Death CertificationMaternal Death IdentificationMaternal Death Surveillance ImplementationMaternal Death Trend AnalysisMaternal Mortality Trend AnalysisMortality RatesPregnancy-associated Mortality
The Maternal Mortality Collaborative, a Special Interest Group of ACOG, established voluntary surveillance of maternal deaths in 1983 to improve detection of maternal deaths, collect and analyze information, and make the results available for physician education. Collaborators from 19 areas submitted data on a standard worksheet that included death certificate data. From a review of each work sheet, a cause of death was assigned (ICD-9) and deaths were classed as maternal or nonmaternal. Subject ages were grouped by 5 year intervals, races as white, black or others, and maternal mortality ratios were calculated (deaths per 100,000 live births).