Effect of maternal near miss on neonatal mortality in selected hospitals: Prospective cohort study, Southeast Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to assess effect of maternal near miss on neonatal mortality.

Methods

Prospective cohort study was conducted on 384 pregnant women who came for delivery to purposely selected hospitals. The cohort was made up of 128 exposed (near miss) mothers and 256 non-exposed (non-near-miss) mothers. Women who came for delivery were only included. Those who came for services other than delivery such as abortion care, women who developed life-threatening condition not related to delivery, and those who come from no phone network area were excluded. A purposive sampling technique was used by including all mothers with near miss consecutively until the required sample size was obtained. Two non-near-miss mothers were selected using lottery for every

SUBMITTER: Aliyi AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8411626 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature