Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
      • Maternal mortality rates remained low for Australian women
      • Maternal mortality rates were higher for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
      • Key causes of direct and indirect maternal deaths in Australia in 2006-2010
  • Body section
    • 1 Introduction
      • 1.1 Background to the report
      • 1.2 Purpose of this report
      • 1.3 Aims of this report
    • 2 Definitions, classifications and methods
      • 2.1 Definitions and classifications
      • 2.2 Measuring maternal mortality
    • 3 Maternal deaths in Australia 2006-2010
      • 3.1 Maternal mortality ratio
      • 3.2 State and territory maternal mortality ratio
    • 4 Direct and indirect maternal deaths
      • 4.1 Cardiac disease
      • 4.2 Non-obstetric haemorrhage
      • 4.3 Amniotic fluid embolism
      • 4.4 Thromboembolism
      • 4.5 Obstetric haemorrhage
      • 4.6 Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
      • 4.7 Sepsis
      • 4.8 Influenza in pregnancy
      • 4.9 Early pregnancy deaths
      • 4.10 Deaths due to other causes
    • 5 Deaths related to psychosocial morbidity
      • 5.1 Severe psychosocial maternal morbidity
    • 6 Incidental deaths
      • 6.1 Accidental injury and motor vehicle accident
    • 7 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
      • 7.1 Indigenous women who died between 2006 and 2010
    • 8 Coronial review
      • 8.1 The role of the coroner
    • 9 Quality of maternal death reviews in Australia
      • 9.1 Sources of maternal death notification
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A National Maternal Mortality Advisory Committee membership
      • Appendix B National Maternal Mortality Advisory Committee-Report Working Group membership
      • Appendix C National Maternal Mortality Advisory Committee-Clinical Classifications Working Group membership
      • Appendix D Data quality statement National Maternal Death Report Data Set for 2006-2010
      • Appendix E National Aboriginal Perinatal Reference Group membership
    • Glossary
    • References
    • Related publications
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
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