University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, and Denver Health Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Denver, the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and the Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver, Colorado.
Corresponding author: Torri D. Metz, MD, MS, Denver Health Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 777 Bannock Street, MC 0660, Denver, CO 80204; e-mail: [email protected].
Supported by the Agency for Health care Research and Quality Grant number R24 HS022143-01 and National Institutes of Health/National Center for Research Resources Colorado CTSI Grant No. UL1 TR001082. I. A. Binswanger was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R34DA035952. T. D. Metz was supported by the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development under Award Number 2K12HD001271-16.
The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality or the National Institutes of Health. In addition, the Colorado Maternal Mortality Review Committee received funding from the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) and Merck for Mothers to assist with the expansion of the committee and to allow for further exploration of suicide as a cause of maternal death in Colorado to identify possible points of intervention.
Financial Disclosure The authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.
Presented as a poster at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine 36th Annual Meeting, February 1–6, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia.
The authors thank Kirk Bol and Lauren Bardin at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for their assistance with obtaining birth certificate data for all live births over the study period as well as for identification of the cases of maternal death.
