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Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2023 Nov 8;28(1):165–176. doi: 10.1007/s10995-023-03828-9

Table 1.

Incidence of severe adverse maternal outcomes during childbirth (United States, 2017–2018)

	Non-Hispanic black women (n = 1,081,078)		Non-Hispanic white women (n = 3,723,410)
	Number of cases	Incidence (Per 10,000; 95% CI)	Number of cases	Incidence (Per 10,000; 95% CI)

Severe adverse maternal outcomes	11,506	106.4 (104.5, 108.4)	27,065	72.7 (71.8, 73.6)
Blood transfusion	5520	51.1 (49.7, 52.4)	13,906	37.3 (36.7, 38.0)
Eclampsia	3969	36.7 (35.6, 37.9)	9404	25.3 (24.7, 25.8)
Intensive care unit admission	2569	23.8 (22.8, 24.7)	5254	14.1 (13.7, 14.5)
Hysterectomy	568	5.2 (4.8, 5.7)	1561	4.2 (4.0, 4.4)

CI confidence interval