Maternal Mortality, ACOG/CDC Definition

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Maternal Mortality, ACOG/CDC Definition Definition Pregnancy-associated or pregnancy-related, with the former referring to the death of a woman during or within a year of the end of pregnancy regardless of the cause of death, and the latter referring to the death of a woman during or within a year of the end of pregnancy from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes.

Maternal Mortality, WHO Definition Definition The death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes.

MCID Definition Minimal Clinically Important Difference; the smallest difference in score of any scale which patients perceive as beneficial and which would mandate a change in the patient’s management. Otherwise, differences in scores smaller than the MCID should be considered not important irrespectively of their statistical significance.

the activities not able to be performed that are the most important to the patient and probes whether this inability is due to the illness. Thus, the MACTAR concept of function may be more comprehensive than that of traditional fixed-item questionnaires and reveal issues that really matter to the patient. This scale has been validated in rheumatoid arthritis and recently in systemic sclerosis.

MCS ▶ Mental Component Summary

MD ▶ Macular Disease

MDG7 ▶ Millennium Development Goal 7 ▶ Millennium Development Goal 7 Target 11

MDGs ▶ Millennium Development Goals

MDS ▶ Myelodysplastic Syndromes ▶ Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale

Measles, Mumps and Rubella McMaster-Toronto Arthritis Patient Preference Disability Questionnaire Definition Functional scale that investigates patient priorities. An interviewer elicits from patients

Definition Combined live vaccine for Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) is used widely for the immunization of children in certain regions of the world because of its advantages over the individual vaccines.