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Table 8 NBU admission and maternal management, using Fisher Exact test or chi-square test

From: Maternal and perinatal outcomes in women with eclampsia by mode of delivery at Riley mother baby hospital: a longitudinal case-series study

Variables

NBU admission

p-value

OR

p-value

95%CI

No (n = 35)

Yes (n = 18)

No.

%

No.

%

Facility of ANC visit

 None#

4

11.4

0

0.0

MCp = 0.354

 Teaching &Referral Hosp

1

2.9

0

0.0

 County referral Hosp

2

5.7

2

11.1

 Sub-county Hosp

5

14.3

1

5.6

 Health centre

14

40.0

12

66.7

 Private Hosp

1

2.9

1

5.6

 Dispensary

8

22.9

2

11.1

Mode of admission

 From home#

15

42.9

9

50.0

0.621

 Transferred

20

57.1

9

50.0

0.8

0.621

0.2–2.3

Treatment of HTN

 Yes

7

20.0

3

16.7

FEp = 1.000

0.8

0.769

0.2–3.6

 No#

28

80.0

15

83.3

Medications

    

MCp = 0.701

   

 Anticonvulsants#

6

17.1

2

11.1

 Multiples drugs

29

82.9

16

88.9

1.655

0.564

0.3–9.2

Mode of delivery

 Vaginal#

20

57.1

4

22.2

0.016*

 Caesarean

15

42.9

14

77.8

4.7

0.020*

1.3–17.1

Indication of C-section

 N/A#

20

57.1

4

22.2

MCp=

0.012*

 Eclampsia

14

40.0

12

66.7

4.3

0.031*

1.1–16.1

 NRFS

0

0.0

2

11.1

0.9

 Arrested disorders

1

2.9

0

0.0

Labour initiation

N/A(C-section)

8

22.9

9

50.0

MCp = 0.028*

3.9

0.036*

1.1–14.7

Spontaneous#

21

60.0

6

33.3

Induction:

      

0.9–120.5

 Cytotec

1

2.9

3

16.7

10.5

0.059

 Cytotec+ F. catheter

1

2.9

0

0.0

 

 Foley catheter

4

11.4

0

 

 

Spontaneous vs induction of labour:

 Spontaneous#

21

60.0

6

33.3

0.066

 Other labour induction

14

40.0

12

66.7

 

3.0

0.066

0.9–9.9

  1. HTN hypertension, C-section caesarean section, N/A not applicable, NRFS non-reassuring foetal status