Excluding blood transfusion, the risk for severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and mortality was comparable between rural and urban parturients, according to one study.
“Although limited, previous publications appear to suggest an increased risk of SMM in rural women,” said principal investigator Jimin Kim, MD, a fellow in obstetric anesthesiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston. “But we found that after socioeconomic and comprehensive