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In response to “missed opportunities and potentially misleading results in maternal mortality study”

We thank Dr David C. Reardon for drawing attention (1) to our publication, "Maternal mortality in Italy: results and perspectives of record-linkage analysis" (2) and asking for a disaggregation of results by different types of pregnancy outcome. We agree with Dr Reardon that it is important for researchers and health policy makers to explore discrepancies relative to different reproductive health experiences in order to design and apply targeted interventions for maternal mortality reduction. Unfortunately, record-linkage based studies do not always allow this sort of analysis. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.