Objectives: To determine near-miss maternal morbidity (MME) at a National Teaching Hospital. Design: Observational, retrospective, transversal type study. Setting: Hospital Nacional Docente Madre-Niño San Bartolome, Lima, Peru. Participants: Pregnant and puerperal women. Interventions: Clinical charts of 206 patients attended between January 2007 and December 2009 and with consideration of extreme maternal morbidity related to specific disease, organic or management failure were revised. Socio-demographic and obstetric variables were analyzed following the protocol established in FLASOG´s methodology for surveillance, as well as identification of the basic cause of morbidityand delays established in the ‘route towards life’ methodology. Main outcome measures: Incidence and characteristics of patients. Results: Extreme maternal morbidity (EMM) affected 0.94% of patients...

Objectives: To determine near-miss maternal morbidity (MME) at a National Teaching Hospital. Design: Observational, retrospective, transversal type study. Setting: Hospital Nacional Docente Madre-Niño San Bartolome, Lima, Peru. Participants: Pregnant and puerperal women. Interventions: Clinical charts of 206 patients attended between January 2007 and December 2009 and with consideration of extreme maternal morbidity related to specific disease, organic or management failure were revised. Socio-demographic and obstetric variables were analyzed following the protocol established in FLASOG´s methodology for surveillance, as well as identification of the basic cause of morbidityand delays established in the ‘route towards life’ methodology. Main outcome measures: Incidence and characteristics of patients. Results: Extreme maternal morbidity (EMM) affected 0.94% of patients...