Open AccessMaternal near miss: Unraveling our experience in the tertiary care hospital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Author(s) -
Charu Sharma,
Amita Yadav,
M. L. Mehrotra,
Mrinmoy Kumar Saha,
Rupali R Tambe
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_145_20
Subject(s) - medicine , referral , maternal death , psychological intervention , standardized mortality ratio , health facility , tertiary referral hospital , near miss , incidence (geometry) , audit , health care , pregnancy , pediatrics , obstetrics , mortality rate , family medicine , retrospective cohort study , environmental health , population , nursing , health services , surgery , physics , management , biology , engineering , economics , genetics , forensic engineering , optics , economic growth
Women who survive life-threatening complications related to pregnancy and delivery have many common aspects with those who die of such complications. This similarity brought forward the near miss concept in maternal health. Analysis of the similarities, differences, and the relationship between these two groups of women provide a complete assessment of quality of maternal health care.