The United States faces an alarmingly high rate of maternal morbidity and mortality, distinguishing it from other high-income countries that have achieved decreases in these rates in recent years. U.S ...

Women's Health. 2015;11(2):193-199. US maternal severe morbidity and mortality must decrease. Finally, essentially all the healthcare organizations that are focused on maternal health are aligned ...

Severe morbidity is far more common than maternal mortality. Excellent markers of severe morbidity are transfusion of four or more units of blood and or intensive care unit admission in peripartum ...