2020 PAMR Report

The 2020 Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review (PAMR) Report shares findings from the LA-PAMR Committee’s review of pregnancy-associated deaths occurring in 2020, including findings related to racial disparities, and recommendations for prevention. LA-PAMR works to quantify and understand pregnancy-associated deaths in order to create actionable, comprehensive recommendations to prevent future deaths.

Pregnancy-associated deaths include:

• Pregnancy-related deaths: The death of a woman during pregnancy or within one year of the end of pregnancy from a pregnancy complication, a chain of events initiated by the pregnancy, or the aggravation of an unrelated condition by the physiologic effects of pregnancy (example cause of death: preeclampsia or eclampsia).
• Pregnancy-associated, but not related deaths: The death of a woman during pregnancy or within one year of the end of pregnancy from a cause that is not related to pregnancy (example cause of death: car crash).
• Pregnancy-associated, but unable to determine relatedness deaths: A pregnancy-associated death where the cause of death is unable to be determined as “pregnancy-related” or “pregnancy-associated, but not related” (example cause of death: suicide).