Predicting Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality - An Informatics Opportunity

摘要

In the last year, there has been a lot of press bringing to light the alarming maternal morbidity and mortality crisis in the United States (National Public Radio, 2018; USA Today, 2018). These investigative reports have highlighted new information from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) 2018 statistical brief, “Trends and disparities in delivery hospitalizations involving Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM), 2006-2015.” The reports highlighted that between 2006 and 2015, SMM increased at a rate of 45% for U.S. mothers, from 101.3 to 146.6 per 10,000 delivery hospitalizations (AHRQ, 2018). Both healthy women and women with comorbidities are dying in childbirth at far higher rates than women in other countries (USA Today, 2018).