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.
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]

* Source: HIS-2002;

(a) Diagnoses pertaining to the group "O" of the ICD-10 and/or procedures beginning with 35 or 69;

(b) Contained in the previous column (corresponds to 5.3% of the same);

(c) Contained in the previous column (maternal deaths and records of multiple hospitalization of the same person have been excluded);

(d) Source: SINASC-2002;

(e) Values in bold are significantly different from the mean country.

Sousa et al. Reproductive Health 2008 5:6   doi:10.1186/1742-4755-5-6
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