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Table 1 Number of hospitalization records* of women during pregnancy, delivery and in the postpartum period, number of records indicative of near miss and women with near miss, number of liveborn infants and near miss morbidity ratio in the Brazilian state capital cities in 2002.

From: Severe maternal morbidity (near miss) as a sentinel event of maternal death. An attempt to use routine data for surveillance

Capital cities

Number of hospitalization records (a)

Number of records suggestive of near miss (b)

Number of women with near miss (c)

Number of liveborn infants (d)

Maternal near miss ratio (MNMR) per 1000 liveborn infants [95% CI] (e)

Region North

     

   Porto Velho

5,286

388

382

7,202

53.0 [48.0–58.5]

   Rio Branco

9,373

473

450

7,710

58.4 [53.3–63.9]

   Manaus

36,322

455

451

38,161

11.8 [10.8–13.0]

   Boa Vista

3,408

81

78

6,072

12.9 [10.2–16.1]

   Belém

25,533

2,234

2,185

25,795

84.7 [81.3–88.2]

   Macapá

9,399

378

366

8,579

42.7 [38.5–47.2]

   Palmas

4,259

368

349

3,942

88.5 [79.9–97.9]

Region Northeast

     

   São Luís

21,597

1,156

1,135

18,317

62.0 [58.5–65.6]

   Teresina

17,248

1,703

1,646

14,498

113.5 [108.4–118.8]

   Fortaleza

44,061

2,552

2,431

39,301

61.9 [59.5–64.3]

   Natal

12,392

520

486

13,286

36.6 [33.5–40.0]

   João Pessoa

8,870

191

184

11,140

16.5 [14.3–19.1]

   Recife

23,378

994

939

24,307

38.6 [36.3–41.1]

   Maceió

17,996

999

952

16,599

57.4 [53.9–61.0]

   Aracaju

9,185

499

490

9,354

52.4 [48.0–57.1]

   Salvador

44,266

3,024

2,959

40,344

73.3 [70.8–76.0]

Region Southeast

     

   Belo Horizonte

28,994

1,436

1,364

32,601

41.8 [39.7–44.1]

   Vitória

3,296

183

177

4,444

39.8 [34.4–46.1]

   Rio de Janeiro

67,098

3,455

3,272

86,949

37.6 [36.4–38.9]

   São Paulo

127,275

6,487

6,163

183,414

33.6 [32.8–34.4]

Region South

     

   Curitiba

20,959

1,304

1,224

26,371

46.4 [43.9–49.0]

   Florianópolis

4,772

139

134

5,229

25.6 [21.6–30.4]

   Porto Alegre

17,617

898

832

20,049

41.5 [38.8–44.4]

Region Central-West

     

   Campo Grande

10,983

537

513

12,347

41.6 [38.1–45.2]

   Cuiabá

7,597

357

337

8,953

37.6 [33.8–41.8]

   Goiânia

12,278

388

360

20,037

18.0 [16.2–19.9]

   Brasília

41,135

2,598

2,520

45,799

55.0 [52.9–57.1]

All capital cities

634,577

33,797

32,379

730,800

44.3 [43.8–44.8]

  1. * Source: HIS-2002;
  2. (a) Diagnoses pertaining to the group "O" of the ICD-10 and/or procedures beginning with 35 or 69;
  3. (b) Contained in the previous column (corresponds to 5.3% of the same);
  4. (c) Contained in the previous column (maternal deaths and records of multiple hospitalization of the same person have been excluded);
  5. (d) Source: SINASC-2002;
  6. (e) Values in bold are significantly different from the mean country.