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Trends in adverse maternal outcomes during childbirth: a population-based study of severe maternal morbidity

BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality is too rare in high income countries to be used as a marker of the quality of maternity care. Consequently severe maternal morbidity has been suggested as a better indicator. Using the maternal morbidity outcome indicator (MMOI) developed and validated for use in routi...

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Autores principales: Roberts, Christine L, Ford, Jane B, Algert, Charles S, Bell, Jane C, Simpson, Judy M, Morris, Jonathan M
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2653462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19243578
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-9-7
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author Roberts, Christine L
Ford, Jane B
Algert, Charles S
Bell, Jane C
Simpson, Judy M
Morris, Jonathan M
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Ford, Jane B
Algert, Charles S
Bell, Jane C
Simpson, Judy M
Morris, Jonathan M
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description BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality is too rare in high income countries to be used as a marker of the quality of maternity care. Consequently severe maternal morbidity has been suggested as a better indicator. Using the maternal morbidity outcome indicator (MMOI) developed and validated for use in routinely collected population health data, we aimed to determine trends in severe adverse maternal outcomes during the birth admission and in particular to examine the contribution of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH). METHODS: We applied the MMOI to the linked birth-hospital discharge records for all women who gave birth in New South Wales, Australia from 1999 to 2004 and determined rates of severe adverse maternal outcomes. We used frequency distributions and contingency table analyses to examine the association between adverse outcomes and maternal, pregnancy and birth characteristics, among all women and among only those with PPH. Using logistic regression, we modelled the effects of these characteristics on adverse maternal outcomes. The impact of adverse outcomes on duration of hospital admission was also examined. RESULTS: Of 500,603 women with linked birth and hospital records, 6242 (12.5 per 1,000) suffered an adverse outcome, including 22 who died. The rate of adverse maternal outcomes increased from 11.5 in 1999 to 13.8 per 1000 deliveries in 2004, an annual increase of 3.8% (95%CI 2.3–5.3%). This increase occurred almost entirely among women with a PPH. Changes in pregnancy and birth factors during the study period did not account for increases in adverse outcomes either overall, or among the subgroup of women with PPH. Among women with severe adverse outcomes there was a 12% decrease in hospital days over the study period, whereas women with no severe adverse outcome occupied 23% fewer hospital days in 2004 than in 1999. CONCLUSION: Severe adverse maternal outcomes associated with childbirth have increased in Australia and the increase was entirely among women who experienced a PPH. Reducing or stabilising PPH rates would halt the increase in adverse maternal outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-26534622009-03-10 Trends in adverse maternal outcomes during childbirth: a population-based study of severe maternal morbidity Roberts, Christine L Ford, Jane B Algert, Charles S Bell, Jane C Simpson, Judy M Morris, Jonathan M BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research Article BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality is too rare in high income countries to be used as a marker of the quality of maternity care. Consequently severe maternal morbidity has been suggested as a better indicator. Using the maternal morbidity outcome indicator (MMOI) developed and validated for use in routinely collected population health data, we aimed to determine trends in severe adverse maternal outcomes during the birth admission and in particular to examine the contribution of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH). METHODS: We applied the MMOI to the linked birth-hospital discharge records for all women who gave birth in New South Wales, Australia from 1999 to 2004 and determined rates of severe adverse maternal outcomes. We used frequency distributions and contingency table analyses to examine the association between adverse outcomes and maternal, pregnancy and birth characteristics, among all women and among only those with PPH. Using logistic regression, we modelled the effects of these characteristics on adverse maternal outcomes. The impact of adverse outcomes on duration of hospital admission was also examined. RESULTS: Of 500,603 women with linked birth and hospital records, 6242 (12.5 per 1,000) suffered an adverse outcome, including 22 who died. The rate of adverse maternal outcomes increased from 11.5 in 1999 to 13.8 per 1000 deliveries in 2004, an annual increase of 3.8% (95%CI 2.3–5.3%). This increase occurred almost entirely among women with a PPH. Changes in pregnancy and birth factors during the study period did not account for increases in adverse outcomes either overall, or among the subgroup of women with PPH. Among women with severe adverse outcomes there was a 12% decrease in hospital days over the study period, whereas women with no severe adverse outcome occupied 23% fewer hospital days in 2004 than in 1999. CONCLUSION: Severe adverse maternal outcomes associated with childbirth have increased in Australia and the increase was entirely among women who experienced a PPH. Reducing or stabilising PPH rates would halt the increase in adverse maternal outcomes. BioMed Central 2009-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2653462/ /pubmed/19243578 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-9-7 Text en Copyright © 2009 Roberts et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Roberts, Christine L
Ford, Jane B
Algert, Charles S
Bell, Jane C
Simpson, Judy M
Morris, Jonathan M
Trends in adverse maternal outcomes during childbirth: a population-based study of severe maternal morbidity
title Trends in adverse maternal outcomes during childbirth: a population-based study of severe maternal morbidity
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title_fullStr Trends in adverse maternal outcomes during childbirth: a population-based study of severe maternal morbidity
title_full_unstemmed Trends in adverse maternal outcomes during childbirth: a population-based study of severe maternal morbidity
title_short Trends in adverse maternal outcomes during childbirth: a population-based study of severe maternal morbidity
title_sort trends in adverse maternal outcomes during childbirth: a population-based study of severe maternal morbidity
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2653462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19243578
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-9-7
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