Background Incomplete vital registration systems mean that causes of death during
pregnancy and childbirth are poorly understood in low-income and middle-income …

* Rate for direct sepsis (genital tract sepsis and other pregnancy related infections) is shown
in pale and rate for indirect sepsis (influenza, pneumonia, others) in dark bar.† Rate for …

Background Data for the causes of maternal deaths are needed to inform policies to improve
maternal health. We developed and analysed global, regional, and subregional estimates of …

Background The reduction of maternal deaths is a key international development goal.
Evidence-based health policies and programmes aiming to reduce maternal deaths need …

In the latest UK Report of the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths (the CMACE
report), 1 20 out of 22 deaths related to pre-eclampsia involved substandard care—a …

Comprehensive analyses of the causes of maternal mortality have been published by WHO1
and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. 2 These analyses strikingly show the …

Application of the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) to
deaths during pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium (ICD-Maternal Mortality [MM]) …

Objective To quantify the extent of incompleteness and misclassification of maternal and
pregnancy related deaths, and to identify general and context-specific factors associated …

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Background Maternal mortality remains a major challenge to health systems worldwide.
Reliable information about the rates and trends in maternal mortality is essential for resource …