Risk Factors for Vaginal Colonization and Relationship between Bacterial Vaginal Colonization and In-Hospital Outcomes in Women with Obstructed Labor in a Ugandan Regional Referral Hospital
Table 2
Maternal and neonatal outcomes of obstructed labor participants, comparing women vaginally colonized with a potential pathogen to those not colonized.
Outcome
Colonized, (63%)
Not colonized, (37%)
value
Maternal
Endometritis
8 (40)
6 (55)
0.44
Postpartum fever (>38.0°C) or hypothermia (<36.0°C)
20 (12)
11 (11)
0.81
Maternal death
1 (1)
0 (0)
0.63
Days hospitalized, mean (SD)
3.4 (3)
3.5 (3)
0.83
Reoperation
1 (1)
0
0.45
Postpartum urinary tract infection
1 (5)
1 (10)
0.61
Postpartum hemorrhage
1 (1)
1 (1)
0.70
Readmission to MRRH within 6 weeks postpartum
2 (1)
2 (2)
0.60
Neonatal
Live birth
156 (100)
91 (99)
0.19
Stillbirth
8 (5)
3 (3)
0.51
In-hospital neonatal death
1 (1)
2 (2)
0.28
1-minute Apgar <7
11 (12)
11 (7)
0.24
5-minute Apgar <7
0 (0)
3 (3)
0.05
SD: standard deviation; MRRH: Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
