Indian Journal of Community and Family Medicine (Jan 2023)

Applicability of near-miss tools to address maternal mortality

  • Dhanak Kanwar,
  • Ravleen Kaur Bakshi,
  • Mahendra Singh,
  • Nandita Sharma,
  • Sabiha Sadiq,
  • Pradeep Aggarwal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/ijcfm.ijcfm_43_22
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 5 – 7

Abstract

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In India, there is a mandate to increase institutional delivery, which has led to an overwhelming response in health-care delivery. The maternal mortality rate has been an essential yardstick, used by health-care planners to assess the quality of obstetric services. As of late, there has been a shift in focus to maternal near-misses (MNMs) as a more valuable indicator of maternal health than the maternal mortality rate. The aim of this research article was to compare various standardized tools to address MNM, namely, the World Health Organization MNM tool, The Government of India's facility-based MNM review tool, etc.

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