Erschienen in:
01.08.2013 | Editorial
Maternal Near Miss Review: A Way Forward
verfasst von:
C. N. Purandare
Erschienen in:
The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India
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Ausgabe 4/2013
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Excerpt
India has made significant progress in reducing its maternal mortality rate (MMR) from 254 (SRS 2004–06) to 212 (SRS 2007–09) [
1] per hundred thousand live births (LB); however, there is a long way to go on this journey to meet the millennium development goals. Maternal mortality (MM) is frequently described as “Just The Tip of The Iceberg” alluding that there is a vast base to the iceberg in the form of maternal near miss (MNM) i.e. maternal morbidity which has remained largely undescribed. In 2009, Roost et al. [
2] reported MMR as 187/100,000 LB and MNM as 50/1,000 LB, with a relatively low mortality index (MI) of 3.6 %. …