Table 7 Basic characteristics of the (corrected) life-threatening population
From: Validating the WHO maternal near miss tool: comparing high- and low-resource settings
Netherlands (N = 1024) | Tanzania (N = 103) | Corrected (N = 228) | Malawi (N = 84) | Corrected (N = 206) | P-value | Corrected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age (y) | |||||||
Data available | 1019 | 103 | 228 | 84 | 205 | ||
< 20 | 11 (1.1) | 15 (14.6) | 22 (9.6) | 16 (19.0) | 29 (14.1) | a | 0.15 |
20-35 | 760 (74.6) | 75 (72.8) | 170 (74.6) | 54 (70.2) | 157 (76.2) | 0.71 | 0.69 |
> 35 | 248 (24.3) | 13 (12.6) | 36 (15.8) | 9 (10.7) | 19 (9.2) | a | b |
Parity | |||||||
Data available | 967 | 93 | 208 | 81 | 202 | ||
0 | 514 (53.2) | 28 (30.1) | 47 (22.6) | 19 (23.5) | 32 (15.8) | a | 0.08 |
1 | 333 (32.5) | 10 (10.8) | 27 (13.0) | 9 (11.1) | 28 (13.6) | a | 0.79 |
≥ 2 | 120 (12.4) | 55 (59.1) | 134 (64.4) | 53 (65.4) | 142 (70.3) | a | 0.21 |
Units of blood | |||||||
Data available | 1000 | 103 | 228 | 82 | 202 | ||
0 | 123 (12.3) | 44 (42.7) | 44 (19.3) | 39 (47.6) | 49 (24.3) | a | 0.21 |
1 | 6 (0.6) | 22 (21.4) | 108 (47.4) | 14 (17.1) | 64 (31.7) | a | c |
2 | 23 (2.3) | 25 (24.3) | 54 (23.7) | 17 (22.1) | 62 (30.7) | a | 0.10 |
3 | 16 (1.6) | 6 (5.8) | 12 (5.3) | 5 (6.1) | 17 (8.4) | a | 0.19 |
4 | 88 (8.8) | 4 (3.9) | 8 (3.5) | 3 (3.7) | 5 (2.5) | 0.07 | 0.53 |
≥ 5 | 744 (74.4) | 2 (1.9) | 2 (0.9) | 4 (4.9) | 4 (2.0) | a | 0.33 |
Mortality | |||||||
Data available | 1024 | 103 | 228 | 84 | 206 | ||
CFR | 31 (3.0) | 32 (31.1) | 32 (14.0) | 21 (25.0) | 28 (13.6) | ||