BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
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Multicenter Study
Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity: a powerful national collaboration generating data on maternal health outcomes and care.
To identify cases of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) during pregnancy and childbirth, their characteristics, and to test the feasibility of scaling up World Health Organization criteria for identifying women at risk of a worse outcome. ⋯ Surveillance of severe maternal morbidity was proved to be possible in a hospital network in Brazil.