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State—s maternal mortality review shows decline in 2023; mental health and hemorrhage top pregnancy-related causes
Summary
The Maternal Mortality Review Committee reported to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee that Idaho had 11 pregnancy-associated deaths in 2023, five of which were determined to be pregnancy-related. Mental-health conditions and hemorrhage each accounted for 40 percent of pregnancy-related deaths in 2023, the committee said.
The Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC), an advisory body to the Idaho Board of Medicine, presented its 2023 summary report to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee and described a decline in pregnancy-associated mortality compared with 2021.
Oren Duffin, program director for the Health Professions Bureau and executive officer for the MMRC, said the bureau and committee reviewed 13 cases reported to the MMRC for calendar year 2023 and determined 11 met the committee's inclusion criteria (death of a woman while pregnant or within one year of pregnancy). Of those 11 pregnancy-associated deaths, five were determined to be pregnancy-related and six were pregnancy-associated but not pregnancy-related.
"For calendar year 2023, 11 of 13 met criteria for inclusion committee review," Duffin said. "Five were determined to be…
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