ArticleAmerican journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM2023
What we talk about when we talk about severe maternal morbidity: a call to action to critically review severe maternal morbidity as an outcome measure.
Article in American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Measuring Severe Maternal Morbidity: Current Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2026Review
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- Severe maternal morbidity and re-hospitalisation in the first postpartum year within Canada, 2008-2020: a population-based retrospective cohort study.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Cost-Utility and Clinical Impact of a Multicomponent Maternal Safety and High-Dependency Care Model in Three Colombian Caribbean Hospitals: A Before-and-After Study.Annals of global health · 2026Article
- Mortality-weighted severe maternal morbidity: a novel approach to assessing maternal health outcomes.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Comorbidities and Pregnancy-Related Risk Factors in Patients with Severe Maternal Morbidity: Application of a Validated Obstetrical Comorbidity Scoring System to a Surveillance-Identified Population.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Severe maternal morbidity in the high income setting: a systematic review of composite definitions.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Call to Action to Quantify Non-Severe and Severe Maternal Morbidity.Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN · 2025Article
- Neighborhood-level fatal police violence and severe maternal morbidity in California.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Structural Racism, Mass Incarceration, and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Analysis of Heat Exposure During Pregnancy and Severe Maternal Morbidity.JAMA network open · 2023Article
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Abstract
Severe maternal morbidity has historically functioned as an umbrella term to define major, potentially life-threatening obstetrical, medical, and surgical complications of pregnancy. There is no overarching or consensus definition of the constellation of conditions that have been used variably to define severe maternal morbidity, although it is clear that having a well-honed definition of severe maternal morbidity is important for research, quality improvement, and health policy purposes. Although severe maternal morbidity may ultimately elude a single unifying definition because different features may be relevant depending on context and modality of data acquisition, it is valuable to explore the intellectual frameworks and various applications of severe maternal morbidity in current practice, and to consider the potential benefit of more consolidated terminology for maternal morbidity.
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