Marie E Thoma

2 weeks ago | commonwealthfund.org | Eugene Declercq |Marie E Thoma |Pooja Mehta |Laurie Zephyrin

At first glance, maternal deaths might appear to be a straightforward issue to quantify and measure. Deaths occurring at the time of birth in a hospital as a result of conditions clearly related to delivery, such as postpartum hemorrhage, are easy to classify as pregnancy-related.