Prevalence of death is estimated from crude mortality ratios (number of deaths divided by number of ICU admissions), and then logistic analysis is used to identify prognostic factors.
The effect of case mix adjustment is to erroneously inflate the standardised mortality ratio (observed number of deaths/expected number of deaths × 100) for that hospital.
The indicator chosen to measure the progress is the maternal mortality ratio (MMR; number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births).
Reducing the mortality ratio (the number of fetal deaths per 1,000 live births) among fetuses of ≥ 20 weeks gestation to 4.1 deaths per 1,000 live births has been identified as a national public health priority by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2000).
Maternal Mortality Declining in Middle-income Countries; Women Still Die in Pregnancy and Childbirth in Low-income Countries The world's maternal mortality ratio (the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) is declining too slowly to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, which aims to improve maternal health and prevent women from dying in pregnancy & childbirth.
Geneva, New York, 12 October 2007 – The world's maternal mortality ratio (the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) is declining too slowly to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, which aims to improve maternal health and prevent women from dying in pregnancy and childbirth.
In fact for each i-th area out of 287, the standardized mortality ratio (observed/expected number of cases) is an estimate of the relative risk (RR), i.e. the disease risk in each area compared with the adopted standard.
In spite of considerable efforts towards attaining the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG 5) – which established a global goal of reducing the maternal mortality ratio (the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) by 75% between 1990 and 2015 – maternal mortality has remain stubbornly high throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa [ 1].
In 2008, it was among eight countries added to the Countdown to 2015 list of priority countries under the criteria of high maternal mortality ratio and numbers of maternal deaths.
