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Maternal Mortality Review Committee presents 2023 report: Idaho pregnancy‑related deaths decline but committee urges continued focus
Summary
Oren Duffin, executive officer for the Maternal Mortality Review Committee, presented the MMRC’s 2023 report. The committee reviewed 11 pregnancy‑associated deaths (of 13 reported), found five pregnancy‑related deaths, and recommended investigating access to care and substance‑use treatments for pregnant and postpartum women.
Oren Duffin, program director for the Health Professions Bureau and executive officer for Idaho’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC), presented the committee’s 2023 maternal mortality report to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee.
Duffin said the MMRC received 13 cases for investigation in calendar year 2023; 11 met the committee’s inclusion criteria (death of a woman while pregnant or within one year of pregnancy). Of those 11, the MMRC determined five deaths were pregnancy‑related and six were pregnancy‑associated but not pregnancy‑related. Using the committee’s review methodology, Idaho’s pregnancy‑related mortality ratio declined from 40.1 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021 to 22.6 in 2023, Duffin reported.
The MMRC found mental‑health conditions and hemorrhage…
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