Reducing Maternal Mortality: The Measurement Imperative

The recent release of the 2018 Maternal Mortality Report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded a decade-long interval during which this statistic went unreported (Hoyert and Minino, 2020Hoyert D.L. Minino A.M. Maternal morality in the United States: Changes in coding, publication, and data release 2018.National Vital Statistics Reports. 2020; 69: 1-18Google Scholar). Impelled by staggered state adoption of the...