Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC)

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Maternal Mortality in Nebraska

Maternal Mortality in Nebraska: During 2017-2021, a total of 50 Nebraskan women died while pregnant or within one year after the end of the pregnancy. The pregnancy associated mortality ratio (PAMR) for Nebraska residents from 2017-2021 was 41.6 deaths per 100,000 live births. Eighty-two percent (82%) of the pregnancy associated deaths were deemed preventable after committee review.
Medical causes were the most common category of death representing 54% of all pregnancy associated deaths (n=27). One in five pregnancy associated deaths was due to a motor vehicle crash.
The MMRC determined 14 (28%) of the 50 cases reviewed during the reporting period to be pregnancy related. The pregnancy related mortality ratio (PRMR) from 2017-2021 was 11.6 deaths per 100,000 live births (95% CI=6.9, 18.3).

How Does Nebraska Define Maternal Mortality?

Different definitions of maternal mortality are used to track and analyze deaths by different organizations. Most broadly, maternal mortality is the death of a person while pregnant or within one year of the end of a pregnancy.

A pregnancy-associated death is the death of a person within one year of the end of a pregnancy from any cause. Pregnancy-associated deaths represent the broadest category of maternal deaths, and can be broken down further into two main categories: pregnancy-related deaths and deaths unrelated to pregnancy.

A pregnancy-related death is a maternal death due to a pregnancy complication. More specifically, these deaths occur during pregnancy or within a year of the end of a pregnancy and are due to a chain of events initiated by the pregnancy or the aggravation of an unrelated condition by the physiologic effects of pregnancy.