BACKGROUND The study evaluated the pattern of severe maternal outcome, near miss indicators and associated patient and healthcare factors at a private referral hospital in rural Nigeria. METHODS This was a cross sectional study conducted from September 2014 to August 2015 in Madonna University Teaching Hospital Elele, Rivers State, Nigeria. Pregnant and postpartum women were recruited for the...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate complications in pregnant women with sickle cell disease, especially those leading to maternal death or near miss (severe obstetric complications). METHODS A prospective cohort of 104 pregnant women registered in the Blood Center of Belo Horizonte (Hemominas Foundation) was followed up at high-risk prenatal units. They belonged to Group I (51 hemoglobin SS and three hemo...

Near-miss events are situations in which an action yields a negative result but is very close to being successful. They are known to influence behavior, especially in gambling scenarios. Previous neuroimaging studies have described an 'anomalous' activity of brain reward areas following these events. The goal of the present research was to study electrophysiological correlates of near-misses in...

Indicators of health care near-miss measure the occurrence of omissions, delays and treatment failure. They are different from maternal near-miss indicators which measure the number of women who nearly died in pregnancy and were saved in extremis. This briefing paper presents why and how the FEMHEALTH project developed and tested health care near-miss indicators for measuring the performance of...

BACKGROUND Effective interventions to reduce mortality and morbidity in maternal and newborn health already exist. Information about quality and performance of care and the use of critical interventions are useful for shaping improvements in health care and strengthening the contribution of health systems towards the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. The near-miss concept and the criterion-...

Currently, most approaches to speech recognition are frame-based in that they represent speech as a temporal sequence of feature vectors. Although these approaches have been successful, they cannot easily incorporate complex modeling strategies that may further improve speech recognition performance. In contrast, segment-based approaches represent speech as a temporal graph of feature vectors a...

Previous research shows that most software systems contain significant amounts of duplicated, or cloned, code. Some clones are exact duplicates of each other, while others differ in small details only. We designate these almost-perfect clones " near-miss " clones. Detection of near-miss clones has many benefits, both academic and practical. Finding these clones can give us better insight into t...

Objective: To determine the factors associated with maternal near-miss in booked patients managed at tertiary care hospital.
 Study Design: Comparative cross-sectional study.
 Place and Duration of Study: Department Obstetrics Gynecology, Combined Military Hospital Malir Cantt from Jun 2019 to Jul 2021.
 Methodology: A total 198 pregnant women were included study. All followed un...

BACKGROUND Maternal morbidity and mortality are increased in the United States compared with that of other developed countries. The objective of this investigation is to determine the extent to which it is possible to predict which patients will experience near-miss morbidity or mortality. METHODS The authors defined near-miss morbidity as end-organ injury associated with length of stay great...

Previous research shows that most software systems contain significant amounts of duplicated, or cloned, code. Some clones are exact duplicates of each other, while others differ in small details only. We designate these almost-perfect clones as “near-miss” clones. While technically difficult, detection of near-miss clones has many benefits, both academic and practical. Finding these clones can...