Open AccessAnalysis of maternal near miss at tertiary level hospitals, Ahmedabad: A valuable indicator for maternal health care
Author(s) -
Farzana Mansuri,
Anjali Mall
Publication year - 2019
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_267_18
Subject(s) - medicine , childbirth , maternal death , eclampsia , tertiary care , audit , health facility , pregnancy , obstetrics , standardized mortality ratio , tertiary level , health care , retrospective cohort study , near miss , pediatrics , family medicine , environmental health , population , health services , genetics , management , forensic engineering , economic growth , engineering , economics , biology , mathematics education , mathematics
Complications during pregnancy and childbirth remain a leading cause of illness and death among women of reproductive age in India. In the recent years, the concept of the WHO maternal near miss (MNM) has been adopted by the tertiary level hospitals as it has an added advantage of offering a large number of cases for intervention and for the evaluation of the maternal healthcare being provided by the health-care system.