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Severe Obstetric Complications

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Measure Information 2024 Reporting Period
Title Severe Obstetric Complications
CMS eCQM ID CMS1028v2
Short Name

PC-07

CBE ID* Not Applicable
Measure Steward The Joint Commission
Description

Patients with severe obstetric complications which occur during the inpatient delivery hospitalization

Measure Scoring Proportion measure
Measure Type Outcome
Stratification

Stratum1: Delivery hospitalizations with severe obstetric complications excluding hospitalizations where transfusion was the only severe obstetric complication.

Additionally, this measure will be stratified by race and ethnicity after measure submission.

Risk Adjustment

The Severe Obstetric Complications Risk Adjustment Methodology Report is available on the eCQI Resource Center (https://ecqi.healthit.gov).

Pre-existing conditions and variables must be present on admission. Please note that present on admission codes may be those entered by coding staff,...

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Rationale

The United States (US) experiences higher rates of maternal morbidity and mortality than most other developed countries. These rates have continued to trend upward in recent decades (CDC, n.d.). Research indicates that the overall rate of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) increased by...

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Clinical Recommendation Statement

Healthy People 2030 Measure (MICH-05): Reduce severe maternal complications identified during delivery hospitalizations

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (the College) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) recommend identifying potential cases of severe...

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Improvement Notation

Improvement noted as a decrease in the rate

Definition

For this measure, specifications are modeled after the nationally available and adopted CDC definition for Severe Maternal Morbidity (SMM) with the addition of maternal mortality. At times, we may refer to the CDC indicators of morbidity as SMM, but the outcome of the measure, which...

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Guidance

In the case of multiple births, map the first delivery date/time (Baby A) as the delivery date/time for the encounter.

This measure allows for 3 approaches to determine gestational age (GA) in the following order of precedence:

1. The GA is calculated using the American College of...

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Initial Population

Inpatient hospitalizations for patients age >= 8 years and < 65 admitted to the hospital for inpatient acute care who undergo a delivery procedure with a discharge date that ends during the measurement period

Denominator

Inpatient hospitalizations for patients delivering stillborn or live birth with >= 20 weeks, 0 days gestation completed

Denominator Exclusions

Inpatient hospitalizations for patients with confirmed diagnosis of COVID with COVID-related respiratory condition or patients with confirmed diagnosis of COVID with COVID-related respiratory procedure

Numerator

Inpatient hospitalizations for patients with severe obstetric complications (not present on admission that occur during the current delivery encounter) including the following:

- Severe maternal morbidity diagnoses (see list below)

- Severe maternal morbidity procedures (see list below)

-...

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Numerator Exclusions

Not applicable

Denominator Exceptions

None

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Last Updated: May 01, 2025