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