About Maternal Mortality Review (MMR)

The Maternal Mortality Review Program identifies and addresses the factors contributing to poor pregnancy outcomes and facilitates state system changes to improve the health of women before, during, and after pregnancy.  

Key Tennessee Definitions:

• Pregnancy-associated deaths – The death of a woman during pregnancy or within one year of the end of pregnancy from any cause.
• Pregnancy-related deaths  – The death of a woman during pregnancy or within one year of end of pregnancy from a pregnancy complication, a chain of events initiated by pregnancy, or the aggravation of an unrelated condition by the physiologic effects of pregnancy
• 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