Table 4

Maternal outcomes for women receiving/not receiving antenatal corticosteroids with birth 24 to < 34 weeks gestational age

Antenatal

corticosteroids

Received

Not received

Relative Risk

95% CI

p-value

n = 104

n = 148

Induction of labour ‡

3 (3)

11 (23)

0.14

0.04; 0.47

0.01

Primary postpartum haemorrhage (≥ 500 ml) ‡

27 (26)

22 (15)

1.68

1.02; 2.79

0.04

Major haemorrhage (≥ 1000 ml) ‡

8 (8)

7 (5)

1.57

0.58; 4.19

0.42

Postpartum pyrexia ≥ 38°C ‡

9 (9)

2 (1)

6.53

1.44; 29.5

0.01

Figures are numbers with percentages rounded to the nearest whole number in brackets and with relative risk and 95% confidence intervals as the comparative statistic. ‡Outcomes not available for a few women.

Pattanittum et al. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2008 8:47   doi:10.1186/1471-2393-8-47