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maternal death
(redirected from Obstetric death)

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maternal death,
the death of a woman during the childbearing cycle.


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One was a death that occurred more than a year after the pregnancy had ended, and although it was an obstetric death, it was excluded because it occurred after one year.
Because the majority of pregnancy-associated deaths were not related to pregnancy, it is important to focus also on [deaths] other than obstetric deaths," they assert.
Post-abortion complications and severe pre-eclampsia/eclampsia account for the majority of the global obstetric deaths (WHO, 1999:13).
 
 
 
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