The Lancet Global Health
Interpreting the lifetime risk of maternal near miss
By Ursula Gazeley, Antonino Polizzi, Julio Romero Prieto and 3 others.
Abstract
Maternal near miss (MNM) events, during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period, are life-threatening complications in which a woman almost dies but survives.1 WHO identifies MNM cases based on clinical, laboratory, and management-based indicators of organ dysfunction.1 Quantifying the burden of these events across the reproductive life course can reveal how inequities in maternal outcomes accumulate through differences in obstetric risk per pregnancy and repeated exposure across successive pregnancies.
Keywords
- Maternal and fetal healthcare
- maternal near miss
- lifetime risk
- maternal mortality
- maternal health
- risk interpretation
- Open access
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