Epidemiology, Outcomes, and Risk Factors for Mortality in Critically Ill Women Admitted to an Obstetric High-Dependency Unit in Sierra Leone.

ABSTRACT: A better understanding of the context-specific epidemiology, outcomes, and risk factors for death of critically ill parturients in resource-poor hospitals is needed to tackle the still alarming in-hospital maternal mortality in African countries. From October 2017 to October 2018, we performed a 1-year retrospective cohort study in a referral maternity hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The primary endpoint was the association between risk factors and high-dependency unit (HDU) mortality. Five hundred twenty-three patients (median age 25 years, interquartile range [IQR]: 21-30 years) were admitted to the HDU for a median of 2 (IQR: 1-3) days. Among them, 65% were referred with a red obstetric early warning score (OEWS) code, representing 1.17 cases per HDU bed per week; 11% of patients di

SUBMITTER: Marotta C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7646769 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature