Researchers argue that the discrepancy may be due to the recording of deaths of women who coincidentally were pregnant as deaths caused by pregnancy itself. Their findings suggest that maternal mortality is largely stable and that deaths due to obstetric complications have decreased in recent years.
Researchers argue that the discrepancy may be due to the recording of deaths of women who coincidentally were pregnant as deaths caused by pregnancy itself. Their findings suggest that maternal mortality is largely stable and that deaths due to obstetric complications have decreased in recent years. Lead study author K.S.
Joseph from the University of British Columbia and his colleagues that this conflation of pregnancy-caused death and death while pregnant may be responsible for an overestimate of maternal mortality of upwards of 300%. The problem appears to have arisen after the National Center for Health Statistics recommended adding a “pregnancy checkbox” to U.S. death certificates in 2003 to address the problem of underestimating the number of deaths due to pregnancy complication
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