Women with maternal near-miss in the intensive care unit in Yangzhou, China: a 5-year retrospective study.

Background: Analysis of "maternal near-misses" is expected to facilitate assessment of the quality of maternity care in health facilities. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate incidence, risk factors and causes of maternal near-misses (MNM) admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) within five years by using the World Health Organization's MNM approach.

Methods: A five-year retrospective study was conducted in Subei People's Hospital of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2019.

A case control study of risk factors and neonatal outcomes of preterm birth.

Objective: The aim is to examine risk factors and neonatal outcomes of preterm birth and to provide basis in preventing preterm birth.

Materials And Methods: we carried out our study on 1328 term controls and 1328 preterm birth cases. By using multivariable logistic regression procedures we estimated odds ratio (OR) of potential preterm birth risk factors.