Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-66 - Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review › Section 3701-66-01 - Pregnancy-associated mortality review definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								"Chance to Alter
			 Outcome" means the review committee determination whether there was no chance,
			 some chance, or a good chance of the death being averted by one or more
			 reasonable changes to patient, family, community, provider, and / or systems
			 factors.
(B)
								"Contributing Factor" means other factors beyond the
			 cause and manner of death that may be partly responsible for the woman's
			 death.
(C)
								"Department or director" means the director of the Ohio
			 department of health or any official or employee of the department designated
			 by the director of the Ohio department of health.
(D)
								"Pregnancy-associated mortality review (PAMR) Board" means
			 the board established or appointed to review deaths of women, residing in Ohio,
			 while pregnant, or anytime within one year of pregnancy, for the purpose of
			 decreasing the incidence of preventable maternal deaths.
(E)
								"Pregnancy-associated death" means the death of a woman
			 while pregnant or anytime within one year of pregnancy regardless of
			 cause.
(F)
								"Pregnancy-related death" means the death of a woman
			 while pregnant or within one year of the end of pregnancy, regardless of
			 duration and physiological site of pregnancy, from any cause related to or
			 aggravated by her pregnancy or its management.
(G)
								"Pregnancy-associated, but not related death" means the
			 death of a woman while pregnant or within one year of the end of pregnancy, due
			 to a cause unrelated to pregnancy.
(H)
								"Pregnancy-associated, but unable to determine pregnancy
			 relatedness" means the death of a woman while pregnant or within one year of
			 pregnancy, due to a cause that could not be determined to be pregnancy-related
			 or not pregnancy-related.
(I)
								"Pregnancy-associated mortality ratio (PMR)" means the
			 number of pregnancy-associated deaths per one hundred thousand live
			 births.
(J)
								"Pregnancy-related mortality ratio (PRMR)" means the
			 number of pregnancy-related deaths per one hundred thousand live
			 births.
(K)
								"Pregnancy-associated, but not related, mortality
			 ratio" means the number of pregnancy-associated deaths, that were not
			 pregnancy-related, per one hundred thousand live births.
(L)
								"Preventable"
			 means the degree to which an individual or community could have reasonably done
			 something that would have changed the circumstances that led to the woman's
			 death.
(M)
								"Public record" means any record defined in division
			 (A)(1) of section
			 149.43
			 of the Revised Code.
(N)
								"Review" means a general assessment or examination of
			 the death of a woman while pregnant, or anytime within one year of pregnancy.
			 The review shall at least consider the cause of death; manner of death;
			 circumstance of death; contributing factors; age; race and ethnicity; and
			 geographic location of death.