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| Title |
A retrospective analysis of trends in maternal mortality in a Gambian tertiary health centre
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| Published in |
BMC Research Notes, October 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13104-017-2817-0 |
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| Authors |
Patrick Idoko, Matthew O. Anyanwu, Sabel Bass |
| Abstract |
Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) has been on the decline in the Gambia since 1990. However, there has been no steady decline in maternal mortality ratio in the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital, the only tertiary health facility in the Gambia. The aim of the study is to determine the trend in maternal mortality over the last 8 years.A retrospective review of all maternal deaths occurring at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital from 1st January 2007 to 31st December 2014 was done. Case abstraction was done with a pre-structured questionnaire using the WHO definition of maternal mortality. There were 663 maternal deaths recorded during the study period. During the same period the total number of live births were 38,896. The annual MMR in each year varied with a range between 1461 and 2105 per 100,000 live births. The MMR in the hospital in on the rise compared to earlier studies. The causes of maternal mortality have not changed much in the hospital. However, the seasonal variation in maternal mortality in earlier studies attributed to the influence of malaria and anaemia was not seen in this study. We attribute this change to the widespread use of intermittent prophylactic treatment for malaria in the antenatal period. While MMR was decreasing in the country, it was increasing in the only tertiary health facility in the country. This was attributed to increasing referrals from other health facilities. The influence of malaria and anemia as a cause of maternal mortality seems to be declining. |
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| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 104 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 22 | 21% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 10% |
| Researcher | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 15 | 14% |
| Unknown | 38 | 37% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 22% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 22 | 21% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 6% |
| Design | 4 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 5 | 5% |
| Unknown | 41 | 39% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 December 2020.
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#6,352,509
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#966
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#103,156
of 323,390 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#17
of 109 outputs
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