New Jersey Statutes 26:6C-12. Annual compilation of statistics
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:6C-12
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
(2) The results of the annual analysis that is conducted pursuant to this subsection shall be posted at a publicly accessible location on the Internet website of the Department of Health, and shall also be promptly forwarded to the NJMCQC.
b. In order to accomplish its duties under this section, the Maternal Mortality Review Committee shall:
(1) for the purposes of determining the total number of pregnancy-associated deaths, review each woman’s death record, and match the death record with a certificate of live birth, or with a fetal or infant death record, for the woman’s child, in order to confirm whether the woman died during pregnancy, or within one year after the end of pregnancy; and
(2) for the purposes of determining the total number of pregnancy-related deaths, review each woman’s death record, and identify each such death record in which the death is reported to have resulted from an underlying or contributing cause related to pregnancy, regardless of the amount of time that has passed between the end of the pregnancy and the death.
The Maternal Mortality Review Committee may also use any other appropriate means or methods to identify maternal deaths. Such means or methods may include, but need not be limited to, use of the case ascertainment system devised by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
L.2019, c.75, s.12.