Maternal death and delays in accessing emergency obstetric care in Mozambique

Table 3 Parameter estimates for the bivariate logistic regression model (with random intercepts)

	Delay II		Delay III		Overall effect
Effect	O.R. (95% C.I)	p-value	O.R. (95% C.I)	p-value	p-value
Age
< 20	Ref.		Ref.
20 -- 34	1.32 (0.82 -- 2.12)	0.2565	0.59 (0.37 -- 0.96)	0.0324	0.0345
> 35	1.21 (0.62 -- 2.37)	0.5729	0.73 (0.38 -- 1.42)	0.3545	0.3586
Parity
Nullipara	Ref.		Ref.
> 1	0.80 (0.51 -- 1.26)	0.3343	1.17 (0.74 -- 1.84)	0.5109	0.297
Referred
No	Ref.		Ref.
Yes	1.76 (1.18 -- 2.62)	0.0055	0.67 (0.45 -- 1.00)	0.0506	0.0019
Type of Health Facility
Health Centers (I;II)	Ref.		Ref.
Central Hospital	2.37 (1.30 -- 4.33)	0.0049	0.89 (0.49 -- 1.62)	0.6957	0.0279
Prov, Gen & Dist Hosp.	1.52 (0.90 -- 2.58)	0.1207	1.16 (0.68 -- 1.99)	0.5839	0.4603
Cause of death
Indirect	Ref.		Ref.
Direct	0.66 (0.42 -- 1.05)	0.0771	2.11 (1.29 -- 3.46)	0.0031	0.0018
Lack of staff for surgical care
No	Ref.		Ref.
Yes	1.35 (0.66 -- 2.76)	0.4118	1.25 (0.65 -- 2.41)	0.5103	0.8833
Within-subject correlation between delay type II and III	−0.745		p -value < .0001

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