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      Severe acute obstetric morbidity (near-miss): a review of the relative use of its diagnostic indicators.

      Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
      Acute Disease, Female, Health Status Indicators, Humans, Maternal Mortality, Morbidity, Obstetric Labor Complications, diagnosis, epidemiology, Pregnancy

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          To assess the most commonly employed diagnostic indicators of severe maternal morbidity (obstetric near-miss). Review of the literature from January 1989 to August 2008. Fifty-one manuscripts met the eligibility criteria, and 96 indicators were utilized at least once. Admission to intensive care unit (n = 28 studies) was the indicator most frequently utilized, followed by eclampsia and hemorrhage (n = 27), blood transfusion (n = 26) and emergent hysterectomy (n = 24). Considering these findings, a trial version of a 13-item instrument for diagnosing obstetric near-miss is proposed. It includes the indicators eclampsia, severe hypertension, pulmonary edema, cardiac arrest, obstetrical hemorrhage, uterine rupture, admission to intensive care unit, emergent hysterectomy, blood transfusion, anesthetic accidents, urea >15 mmol/l or creatinine >400 mmol/l, oliguria (<400 ml/24 h) and coma. Further studies should focus on consensual definitions for these indicators and evaluate the psychometric proprieties of this trial version.

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          19112576
          10.1007/s00404-008-0891-1

          Chemistry
          Acute Disease,Female,Health Status Indicators,Humans,Maternal Mortality,Morbidity,Obstetric Labor Complications,diagnosis,epidemiology,Pregnancy

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