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Title Algorithm to cut birth risk Degree of recognition National Media name/outlet Herald Sun Media type Print Country/Territory Australia Date 17/02/20 Description One in 5 Victorian women will haemorrhage after giving birth. Post-partum haemorrhage is the leading cause of maternity-related deaths worldwide. Dr Sharon Licqurish is working with the Epworth Freemasons and with a team of scientists from Monash University to analyse a data from 800,000 cases of birth to develop an algorithm to calculate and evaluate risk factors that can be put into a computer to provide a probability that a woman will have a haemorrhage. Persons Sharon Licqurish, Ann Nicholson, Nikolajs Zeps