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 March 18, 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.
