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Table 1 Maternal perinatal and neonatal mortality indicators

From: Maternal near misses from two referral hospitals in Uganda: a prospective cohort study on incidence, determinants and prognostic factors

Indicators

Ratio

 Maternal near miss ratio

8.42 per 1000 live births.

 Severe maternal outcome ratio

9.99 per 1000 live births

 Maternal mortality ratio (MMR)

503 per 100,000 live births.

 Severe maternal mortality index

15.8 %

Case-specific mortality rates

 

 Puerperal sepsis (9 out of 142)

6.3 %

 Severe obstructed labor (19 out of 564)

3.4 %

  Abortion-related deaths

 

  Abortion haemorrhage (5 out of 41)

12.2 %

  Postabortion sepsis (5 of 114)

4.4 %

  Overall (10 out of 155)

6.5 %

  Obstetric hemorrhage

 

  Antepartum haemorrhage (5 out of 136)

5.1 %

  Postpartum haemorrhage (15 out of 208)

7.2 %

  Ruptured uterus (27 out of 151)

17.9 %

  Hypertensive disorders

 

  Severe preeclampsia (5 out of 216)

2.3 %

  Eclampsia (13 out of 171)

17.8 %

  HELLP Syndrome (2 out of 7)

28.6 %

  Overall (20 out of 394)

5.1 %