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OBSTETRICS| Volume 32, ISSUE 12, P1140-1146, December 2010

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Maternal Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity Surveillance in Canada

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1701-2163(16)34737-5
Maternal Mortality and Severe Maternal Morbidity Surveillance in Canada
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      Abstract

      The Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System has provided a comprehensive review of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in Canada, and has identified several important limitations to existing national maternal data collection systems, including variability in the detail and quality of mortality data. The Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System report recommended the establishment of an ongoing national review and reporting system, as well as consistency in definitions and classifications of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, in order to enhance surveillance of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity. Using review articles and studies that examined maternal mortality in general as opposed to maternal mortality associated with particular management strategies or conditions, maternal mortality and severe morbidity classifications, terminology, and comparative statistics were reviewed and employed to evaluate deficiencies in past and current methods of data collection and to seek solutions to address the need for enhanced and consistent national surveillance of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in Canada.

      Résumé

      Le Système canadien de surveillance périnatale a fourni une analyse exhaustive de la mortalité maternelle et de la morbidité maternelle grave au Canada, et a identifié plusieurs limites importantes en ce qui concerne les systèmes nationaux existants de collecte de données maternelles, y compris la variabilité pour ce qui est du détail et de la qualité des données sur la mortalité. Le rapport du Système canadien de surveillance périnatale a recommandé la mise sur pied d’un système national continu d’analyse et de signalement, ainsi que le maintien d’une uniformité dans les définitions et les classifications de la mortalité maternelle et de la morbidité maternelle grave, et ce, afin d’améliorer la surveillance de la mortalité maternelle et de la morbidité maternelle grave. En utilisant des articles et des études d’analyse ayant examiné la mortalité maternelle en général (par opposition avec la mortalité maternelle associée à des stratégies de prise en charge ou à des pathologies particulières), les classifications, la terminologie et les statistiques comparatives portant sur la morbidité grave et la mortalité maternelles ont été analysées et utilisées pour évaluer les lacunes des méthodes passées et actuelles de collecte de données et pour chercher des solutions visant à répondre au besoin d’établir un système national amélioré et uniforme de surveillance de la mortalité maternelle et de la morbidité maternelle grave au Canada.

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      Publication history

      Accepted: September 7, 2010
      Received: August 6, 2010

      Footnotes

      Competing Interests: None declared.

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1701-2163(16)34737-5

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      © 2010 Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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