Severe Life-Threatening Pregnancy Complications, “Near Miss” and Maternal Mortality in a Tertiary Hospital in Southern Nigeria: A Retrospective Study

Table 2

Maternal outcome of obstetrics near miss cases.

	Complication, n = 790		Near miss mortality index or	Odds ratio
Diagnosis	Near miss, n = 691	Mortality, n = 99	case fatality rate per 100 admissions (%)
Haemorrhage	298	26	8.73	0.97
Eclampsia/severe preeclampsia	180	20	11.1	1.23
Obstetric labour	114	10	8.8	1.00
Sepsis	60	24	40	4.44
Anaemia	15	8	53.3	5.92
Indirect causes	24	11	4.58	0.51
Total	691	99