Factors associated with maternal death from direct pregnancy complications: a UK national case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the factors associated with maternal death from direct pregnancy complications in the UK.

Design

Unmatched case-control analysis.

Setting

All hospitals caring for pregnant women in the UK.

Population

A total of 135 women who died (cases) between 2009 and 2012 from eclampsia, pulmonary embolism, severe sepsis, amniotic fluid embolism, and peripartum haemorrhage, using data from the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Death, and another 1661 women who survived severe complications (controls) caused by these conditions (2005-2013), using data from the UK Obstetric Surveillance System.

Methods

Multivariable regression analyses were undertaken to identify the factors that were associated with maternal deaths and to estimate the additiv

SUBMITTER: Nair M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4674982 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature