Table 2.
Maternal outcomes
| Specialist n=511 |
Standard n=502 |
p Value | |
| Pre-existing comorbidities | |||
| Type 2 diabetes, n (%) | 2 (0.4) | 12 (2.4) | 0.008 |
| Hypertensive complications | 0.27 | ||
| Chronic hypertension, n (%) | 16 (1.6) | 11 (1.1) | |
| Gestational hypertension, n (%) | 18 (1.8) | 16 (1.6) | |
| Pre-eclampsia, n (%) | 31 (3.1) | 25 (2.5) | |
| Gestational diabetes* | |||
| Screening/diagnostic test performed, n (%) | 496 (100) | 356 (73.6) | <0.001 |
| Prevalence, n (%) | 129 (26.0) | 61 (12.5) | <0.001 |
| Labour and delivery | |||
| Onset labour, n (%) | 0.009 | ||
| No labour | 111 (21.7) | 109 (21.7) | |
| Spontaneous onset | 204 (39.9) | 243 (48.4) | |
| Induction | 196 (38.4) | 150 (29.9) | |
| Delivery method, n (%) | |||
| Elective caesarean | 103 (20.2) | 89 (17.7) | <0.001 |
| Emergency caesarean | 122 (23.9) | 102 (20.3) | |
| Instrumental | 56 (11.0) | 23 (4.6) | |
| Spontaneous vertex | 229 (44.9) | 288 (57.4) | |
| Blood loss at delivery (mL; mean (SD)) | 575 (464) | 465 (387) | <0.001 |
| Obstetric triage attendances, n(%) | <0.001 | ||
| 0 | 108 (21.1) | 229 (45.6) | |
| 1 | 132 (25.8) | 104 (20.7) | |
| 2 | 93 (18.2) | 70 (13.9) | |
| 3 or more | 172 (33.7) | 93 (18.5) |
*
Denominator excludes women with pre-existing diabetes (type 1 or 2) or those who were not managed at the tertiary referral centre. In women who attended for specialist and standard care, the prevalence is based on blood glucose levels and not the clinical diagnosis recorded in the notes.