Inpatient Maternal Mortality in the United States, 2002–2014

Background Although prior studies of inpatient maternal mortality in the United States provide data on the overall rate and trend in inpatient maternal mortality, there are no published reports of maternal mortality data stratified by timing of its occurrence across the pregnancy continuum (antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum). Objective The study objective was to determine whether the maternal mortality rate, trends over time, self-reported...