Awareness about a Life-Threatening Condition: Ectopic Pregnancy in a Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity in Brazil

Table 5

Estimated risk of worse outcome (MNM + MD) among maternal morbidity cases due to ectopic pregnancy according to some obstetric characteristics.

Characteristics	MNM + MD	PLTC	PR	95% CI
Previous abortions (a)
None	95.7	66.8	(Ref.)
1 or more	4.3	33.2	0.10	0.01–0.78
(𝑛)	(23)	(271)
Previous C-sections (b)
None	86.4	76.9	(Ref.)
1	9.1	18.1	0.47	0.11–2.01
2 or more	4.5	5.0	0.82	0.10–7.00
(𝑛)	(22)	(260)
Parity (c)
0	37.5	35.8	(Ref.)
1-2	45.8	48.3	0.91	0.34–2.45
≥3	16.7	15.9	1.00	0.29–3.52
(𝑛)	(24)	(271)
Previous uterine surgery (d)
Yes	0.0	3.4	<0.01	<0.01-<0.01
No	100.0	96.6	(Ref.)
(𝑛)	(17)	(207)
Gestational age at resolution (e)
<9 weeks	71.4	73.2	(Ref.)
≥9 weeks	28.6	26.8	1.09	0.32–3.64
(𝑛)	(14)	(142)
Substandard care—delays (f)
Yes	22.7	15.0	1.59	0.55–4.57
No	77.3	85.0	(Ref.)
(𝑛)	(22)	(266)

MNM: maternal near miss; MD: maternal death; PLTC: potentially life-threatening condition; PR: prevalence ratio adjusted for cluster effect; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval for prevalence ratio. Values in bold type indicate statistically significant values. Missing values for (a) 18 cases; (b) 30; (c) 17; (d) 88; (e) 156; and (f) 24 cases.