OBJECTIVE to analyse the impact of in-hospital care on severe maternal morbidity using WHO's near-miss approach in the low-resource, high mortality setting of Zanzibar's referral hospital. SETTING Mnazi Mmoja Hospital, a tertiary care facility, in Zanzibar, Tanzania. METHODS We identified all cases of morbidity and mortality in women admitted within 42 days after the end of pregnancy at Mna...

BACKGROUND To determine the prevalence and factors associated with severe ('near miss') maternal morbidity and mortality in the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali-Rwanda. METHODS We performed a cross sectional study of all women admitted to the tertiary care University Hospital in Kigali with severe "near miss" maternal morbidity and mortality during a one year period using the WHO criter...

This study used data from the Birth in Brazil survey, a nationwide hospital-based study of 24,197 postpartum women and their newborns, collected between February 2011 and July 2012. A three-stage cluster sampling design (hospitals, days, women) was used consisting of stratification by geographic region, type of municipality (capital or non-capital), and type of hospital financing. Logistic regr...