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Table 6 WHO MNM tool inclusions of the (corrected) life-threatening population

From: Validating the WHO maternal near miss tool: comparing high- and low-resource settings

Category

Subcategory

Events

      

A: Disease

 

Netherlands (N = 1132)

Tanzania (N = 77)

Corrected (N = 124)

Malawi (N = 86)

Corrected (N = 216)

P-value

Corrected

 

0: PPH

822 (72.6)

28 (36.4)

66 (53.2)

21 (24.4)

92 (42.6)

a

a

 

1: Pre-eclampsia

160 (14.1)

3 (3.9)

5 (4.0)

5 (5.8)

7 (3.2)

a

a

 

2: Eclampsia

52 (4.6)

15 (19.5)

15 (12.1)

21 (24.4)

25 (11.6)

a

a

 

3: Sepsis

52 (4.6)

20 (26.0)

23 (18.5)

21 (24.4)

56 (25.9)

a

a

 

4: Ruptured uterus

46 (4.1)

11 (14.3)

15 (12.1)

18 (20.9)

36 (16.7)

a

a

B: Intervention

 

Netherlands (N = 1725)

Tanzania (N = 153)

(N = 315)

Malawi (N = 66)

(N = 215)

  
 

0: Blood products

895 (51.9)

59 (38.6)

184 (58.4)

43 (65.2)

165 (76.7)

a

a

 

1: Interv. radiology

96 (5.6)

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

  
 

2: Laparotomy

197 (11.4)

27 (17.6)

50 (15.9)

23 (34.8)

50 (23.3)

0.06

0.21

 

3: Admission to ICU

537 (31.1)

67 (43.8)

81 (25.7)

N/A

N/A

  

C: Organ dysfunction

 

Netherlands (N = 1325)

Tanzania (N = 167)

(N = 337)

Malawi (N = 96)

(N = 257)

  
 

0: Cardiovascular

166 (12.5)

60 (35.9)

60 (17.8)

35 (36.5)

35 (13.6)

a

a

 

1: Respiratory

115 (8.7)

35 (21.0)

35 (10.4)

13 (13.5)

13 (5.1)

a

b

 

2: Renal

26 (2.0)

4 (2.4)

4 (1.2)

1 (1.0)

1 (0.4)

0.51

0.16

 

3: C/H

845 (63.8)

16 (9.6)

186 (55.2)

4 (4.2)

165 (64.2)

a

0.70

 

4: Hepatic

27 (2.0)

3 (1.8)

3 (0.9)

11 (11.5)

11 (4.3)

a

b

 

5: Neurologic

33 (2.5)

33 (19.8)

33 (9.8)

11 (11.5)

11 (4.3)

a

a

 

6: Hysterectomy

113 (8.5)

16 (9.6)

16 (4.7)

21 (21.9)

21 (8.2)

a

0.20

  1. Data is shown in numbers (percentage)
  2. PPH postpartum haemorrhage, ICU intensive care unit, C/H = coagulation/haematological, N/A not applicable
  3. a= <0.0001, b = <0.05