No one data source captures all: A nested case-control study of the completeness of maternal death reporting in Banten Province, Indonesia.
Siti Nurul QomariyahReena SethiYulia Nur IzatiTika RiantyKamaluddin LatiefAli Zazrinull BesralMassee BatemanEskaning Arum PawestriSaifuddin AhmedEndang L AchadiPublished in: PloS one (2020)
The DHO reporting system missed approximately half of the maternal deaths in the 3 study areas, suggesting that the DHO system is likely to grossly underestimate the maternal mortality ratio. The DHO reporting system needs to be improved to capture and characterize all maternal deaths.