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Ascertainment of maternal deaths in New York City.

Author(s) -

M H Allen,

Wendy Chavkin,

J Marinoff

Publication year - 1991

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.81.3.380

Subject(s) - medical examiner , medicine , pregnancy , demography , maternal death , cause of death , environmental health , fetal death , obstetrics , injury prevention , poison control , population , fetus , disease , pathology , biology , sociology , genetics

Maternal deaths in New York City are defined as deaths from any cause in a woman while pregnant or within six months of pregnancy termination. Pilot studies seeking to improve maternal death ascertainment found that selected medical examiner reports contributed an additional 10.5 percent of the total maternal deaths, vital statistics review contributed 6.3 percent, linkage of death tapes of women of reproductive age to live birth and fetal death tapes contributed 1.0 percent. Medical examiner cases should be incorporated into surveillance data for accurate ascertainment of pregnancy associated deaths.

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