Research Article
Estimating the Risk of Maternal Death at Admission: A Predictive Model from a 5-Year Case Reference Study in Northern Uganda
Table 1
Maternal characteristics of cases and controls.
| Maternal variable | Cases, n = 130 | Controls, n = 366 | P value |
| Maternal age (years) | 27.85 (SD 6.71) | 24.54 (SD 6.42) | <0.0001 | Parity | 3.62 (SD 2.43) | 2.70 (SD 2.06) | <0.0001 | Gestational age (weeks) | 31.4 (SD 7.94) | 37.6 (SD 4.01) | <0.0001 | Length of hospitalisation (days) | 5.43 (SD 8.10) | 3.25 (SD 3.43) | <0.0001 | Marital status- married | 108 (83.1%) | 306 (83.6%) | <0.0001 | Referred | 87 (66.9%) | 93 (25.4%) | <0.00001 | ANC attendance | 72 (55.8%) | 277 (76.1%) | <0.0001 | HIV positive | 20 (27.0%) | 31 (10.5%) | <0.001 | Mode of delivery: vaginal delivery, C/S, operative vaginal delivery | 47 (47.5%), 49 (49.5%), 2 (2.0%) | 226 (72.7%), 73 (23.5%), 1 (0.3%) | <0.0001 |
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