RUDN Journal of Medicine (Dec 2011)
The basic measures of preventing maternal mortality in obstetric near miss cases
Abstract
The problem of reducing maternal mortality and searching the ways the organizational, medical – diagnostic and tactical problems causes the necessity to consider the near miss cases in obstetrics, which were close to fatal, but due to high – quality care refer to the cases of prevented maternal mortality. Paying attention to revealing the preventable cases of mortality during pregnancy, delivery and postnatal period will give a chance to find more opportunities to reduce and prevent maternal mortality.