Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, California Pacific Hospital, San Francisco, California, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Wake Forest University, Winston–Salem, North Carolina; the Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Washington, DC; the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California; the University of Colorado College of Nursing, Aurora, Colorado; and the Cooper University Hospital, Cooper Medical School, Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey.
Corresponding author: Sarah J. Kilpatrick, MD, PhD, The Helping Hand of Los Angeles Endowed Chair and Chair of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8635 West Third St, Suite 160W, Los Angeles, CA 90048; e-mail: [email protected].
The authors thank Anna Santa-Donato, MSN, RN, for her significant contribution to the severe maternal morbidity abstraction and assessment form.
Jeanne Mahoney RN, BSN, is an employee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (the College). All opinions expressed in this article are the authors' and do not necessarily reflect the policies and views of the College. Any remuneration that the authors receive from the College is unrelated to the content of this article.
The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This article is being published concurrently in the July/August 2014 issue (Vol. 43, No.4) of Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing.
Financial Disclosure The authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.
