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Table 7 Estimated risks of any sub-standard care/delay in obstetric care according to some characteristics of antenatal care

From: Delays in receiving obstetric care and poor maternal outcomes: results from a national multicentre cross-sectional study

Characteristics

User factors

Health service accessibility

Quality of medical care

Any delay (%)

PRadj

CI 95%

 

%

%

%

Yes

No

  

Antenatal care in the same facility

       

Yes

20.0

20.4

15.4

18.9

28.3

ref

 

No

67.0

70.0

80.2

73.6

68.3

1.28

1.06-1.53

No antenatal care

13.0

9.6

4.4

7.5

3.4

1.66

1.26-2.19

Total (n)

(769)

(2656)

(2045)

(4212)

(3692)

  

p-value

<0.001

<0.001

0.058

0.002

  

Antenatal insurance

       

Public

96.3

96.6

94.5

95.9

93.4

1.31

1.03-1.67

Private/Insurance

3.7

3.4

5.5

4.1

6.6

ref

 

Total (n)

(588)

(2174)

(1703)

(3426)

(3227)

  

p-value

0.079

0.012

0.789

0.010

  

Access to the hospital

       

Spontaneous demand

50.1

48.2

29.3

42.0

55.2

ref

 

Transfer from Emergency Department

2.6

2.5

2.3

2.2

1.2

1.45

1.18-1.78

Scheduled Inter-hospital transfer

21.3

22.9

20.8

22.2

18.7

1.24

1.03-1.49

Direct Inter-hospital transfer

6.4

8.5

29.8

14.8

0.6

2.08

1.73-2.50

Referral from another Health Service

11.8

9.4

11.1

10.6

13.1

1.03

0.87-1.22

Referral from the same Health Service

8.0

8.6

6.7

8.1

11.2

0.97

0.88-1.07

Total

(817)

(2759)

(2149)

(4401)

(3898)

  

p-value

0.685

0.014

<0.001

<0.001

  
  1. PRadj: Prevalence Ratio adjusted for cluster effect. Values in bold mean they are statistically significant.