New study challenges scale of maternal health crisis in the US

New research suggests that reliance on one checkbox may have led to an increase in misclassified maternal deaths, resulting in an overestimation of maternal mortality and trends over the past few decades.

By: Cable News Network

Mar 14 2024
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CNN — Hundreds of women in the United States die from complications related to pregnancy, childbirth and the time after giving birth each year, and the country’s high maternal death rate makes it an outlier among developed nations. Federal data shows... [10689 chars]