Near miss and black women

Abstract

Introduction: Maternal mortality shows big difference between developed and developing countries and reflects the quality of care provided to women's health. To better demonstrate this, new service study methods have been used, including the investigation of serious maternal morbidity - near misses. Objective: To analyze the risk factors for the occurrence of near miss in different race/color, women living in three municipalities of the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba. Method: A descriptive study. Results: In multivariate analysis, we identified the variables age (p=0.0321 with OR 3.08 and CI 95% 1.10 to 8.65), associated diseases (p=0.0018 with OR 4.06 and 95% CI 1.61 to 10.24 ) and cause of hospitalization (p=<0.0001 with OR 8.75 and 95% CI 3.36 to 22.75) as risk factors for near miss; OR estimated based on the multivariate model. The color variable was not identified as a risk factor for near miss (p=0.8964) in the presence of other variables. Conclusions: The study showed the need for further analysis in studies on the occurrence of near miss and color of the variable age and other causes of hospitalization for white women and the rate/number of pregnancies and the presence of chronic or associated diseases for black women as well as the imposition of other analysis parameters such as transfers and readmissions.