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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obstet Gynecol. 2009 Oct;114(4):752–756. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181b8f28f

Table 7.

Maternal Infection-related Outcomes in Patients without Spontaneous Rupture of Membranes

Prophylaxis
(N=5475)
No Prophylaxis
(N=3291)
OR (95% CI) Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Postpartum Endometritis 101 (1.8) 81 (2.5) 0.75 (0.55 – 1.00) 0.40 (0.27 – 0.60)
Wound infection 28 (0.51) 31 (0.94) 0.54 (0.32 – 0.90) 0.50 (0.28 – 0.91)
Other infection-related complications 8 (0.15) 11 (0.33) 0.44 (0.18 – 1.09) 0.35 (0.12 – 1.05)

Data presented as N (%); CI Confidence Interval; OR Odds Ratio

Adjusted for smoking, payor status, gestational age and BMI at delivery, race, diabetes, antepartum infections, anemia, operative time, primary or repeat cesarean delivery and study center. Eighty-six percent of observations available for analysis.

*

maternal sepsis, wound dehiscence or evisceration, necrotizing fasciitis, pelvic abscess and septic pelvic thrombophlebitis