Study says U.S. maternal death rate crisis is really a case of bad data

Data classification errors have inflated U.S. maternal death rates for two decades, according to a new study. Instead of the maternal death ...

How bad is maternal mortality in the U.S.? A new study says ... - NPR

The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics' most recent report put the U.S. maternal mortality rate at a whopping 32.9 deaths per 100,000 ...

U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis Comparison | Commonwealth Fund

The United States continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic ...

New study challenges scale of maternal health crisis in the US - CNN

Even though the new study suggests that the nation's overall maternal mortality rate is not rising as much as previous data has indicated, the ...

The U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis Is a Statistical Illusion

You might think a sudden doubling in maternal death rates would be obviously flagged as a data issue to correct, but this turns out not to be so ...

Is The Maternal Death Rate Crisis In The US Based On Data Errors?

Except, that's not quite true. What the new study seems to show is that using different ways of analyzing maternal mortality statistics gives us ...

What Policy Makers Need To Know About The US Maternal Mortality ...

In 2020, the Surgeon General released a “Call to Action” to improve maternal health, setting a goal that the maternal mortality rate be reduced ...

What to Know About the Debate Over U.S. Maternal Mortality Rates

A new study challenged the accuracy of public health data on deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth — and the narrative of high and ...

Flawed data inflated US maternal mortality rates, new study says

New research calls into question the severity of the nation's maternal mortality crisis, finding that flawed data has inflated death rates over the past two ...

The Maternal-Mortality Crisis That Didn't Happen - The Atlantic

The notion that the U.S. has fallen behind other highly developed nations in addressing rising maternal deaths has filtered from academia into ...

High and rising U.S. maternal mortality rates are due to flawed data ...

The maternal mortality crisis in the U.S. has shown high rates of maternal deaths compared to other countries – but the study, published ...

Maternal mortality numbers in the U.S. have been overestimated ...

A study published today suggests the rate is actually much lower, and in fact, in line with the rate in other wealthy countries.

Are Maternal Deaths Being Overestimated? CDC ... - Healthline

A new study suggests that maternal mortality rates in the U.S. may ... maternal death rates were accurate, researchers examined NCHS data ...

Have U.S. deaths from pregnancy complications tripled? - Science

Experts agree that the U.S. maternal mortality rate is unacceptably high. And year after year of data show that disadvantaged groups, ...

What Do We Really Know About the Maternal-Mortality Crisis?

But there have been concerns about the data underlying this narrative. New research calls into question whether maternal deaths have really ...

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No, the Maternal Mortality Rate Is Not Rising - Governing Magazine

The scare headlines about maternal mortality going up and being especially deadly for Black women are based on changes in data collection, ...

US maternal deaths could be lower than we thought — but there are ...

A new study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that maternal mortality rates in the US may be lower than ...

Fighting the Maternal Mortality Crisis - Rollins School of Public Health

In 2021, maternal mortality (defined as a death during pregnancy or within one year of the end of pregnancy) rose by 40 percent in the U.S., with Black women ...

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Study says U.S. maternal death rate crisis is really a case of bad data Instead of the maternal death rate more than doubling since 2002, ...