Incidence & factors influencing maternal near miss events in tertiary hospitals of Maharashtra, India.

Background & Objectives: Government of India (GoI) released operational guidelines for maternal near miss-review (MNM-R) in 2014 for use by programme managers of public health system to assist them for conducting MNM-R. The objective of the present study was to review the incidence and factors influencing MNM events in two tertiary hospitals of Maharashtra, India, as per the operational guidelines of the GoI released in 2014 and identify delays based on three-delay model to prevent such events in future.

Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted in two tertiary hospitals of Maharashtra, from July 2018 to November 2020.