Maternal Mortality Review Committee

The Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC) is an advisory body to the Idaho State Board of Medicine. Reconstituted in 2024, the committee’s purpose is to identify, review, and analyze maternal deaths and determine if the pregnancy was incidental to, or a contributing factor in, the mother’s death. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics provides the MMRC staff with the names of the women that qualify for MMRC review for a given year.

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Maternal Death:

• As defined by Health and Human Service’s Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: The annual number of female deaths from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes) during pregnancy and childbirth or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy. This definition is used to calculate the MICH-04 Obstetric Caused Pregnancy-Related Ratio.
• As defined by the Idaho Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC): The death of a woman from any cause during pregnancy or within 365 days following the end of the pregnancy.

Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC): multidisciplinary group that convenes at the state or local level to comprehensively review deaths that occur during or within 1 year of the end of pregnancy. Each MMRC is designed to identify ways to improve behaviors, health and healthcare delivery before, during, and after pregnancy.

MICH-04 Pregnancy-Related Ratio: Used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a quantitative measure of the number of Pregnancy-Related obstetric caused deaths per 100,000 live births.2 This counting methodology aligns with the international definition of maternal death.

• Numerator: number of female deaths due to obstetric causes (ICD-10 codes: A34, O00-O95, O98-O99) while pregnant or within 42 days of being pregnant.
• Denominator: Total number of live births per year in Idaho.

Pregnancy-Associated Death (PAD): The death of a woman from any cause, while pregnant or within one year of being pregnant, regardless of the duration and location of the pregnancy. represents the total number of maternal deaths within the state of Idaho and is subdivided into two categories:

Pregnancy-Associated but not related Death: The death of a woman due to a non-pregnancy related cause.

Pregnancy-Related Death (PRD): A Pregnancy-Associated Death resulting from one of the following:

• Complications of the pregnancy itself.
• A chain of events initiated by the pregnancy.
• Aggravation of an unrelated condition by the physiological effects of pregnancy.

Pregnancy-Related Mortality Ratio (PRMR): Used by most MMRCs to calculate the number of Pregnancy-Related Deaths (women that were pregnant or within 365 days of being pregnant) per 100,000 live births

• Numerator: number of Pregnancy-Related Deaths per year
• Denominator: Total number of live births per year in Idaho

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