Research Article

Burden of Uterine Rupture and Its Determinant Factors in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Table 3

Shows subgroup analysis of the prevalence of uterine rupture by study characteristics in Ethiopia.

SubgroupNumber of studiesPrevalence (95% CI) (%)

Publication year
≤201741.97 (1.15, 2.79)96.4
After 201772.83 (2.04, 3.62)97.9
Study design
Cross-sectional82.97 (2.22, 3.71)98.2
Case control21.28 (1.09, 1.47)0
Cohort11.84 (1.31, 2.37)
Region
Amhara55.38 (3.71, 7.05)98.5
Oromiya21.20 (0.87, 1.54)64.2
SNNPR31.88 (0.94, 2.81)96.5
Tigray10.91 (0.65, 1.16)
Sample size
≤600064.53 (3.03, 6.04)97.5
>600051.61 (1.03, 2.19)97.9