Table 5.

Maternal postpartum complications by planned place of birth

Complication and planned place of birth	No. of events	No. of births	Incidence of events/1000 births	Unadjusted OR	Adjusted OR*
Postpartum haemorrhage with blood transfusion	6518	1 251 420	5.2
Hospital	6230	1 171 703	5.3	1	1
Birth centre	244	71 505	3.4	0.64 (0.54–0.76)	0.66 (0.56–0.78)
Home	44	8212	5.4	1.01 (0.68–1.49)	1.08 (0.73–1.60)
Admission at least 48 hours to intensive care or high dependency unit†	2602	707 221‡	3.7
Hospital	2521	654 960	3.8	1	1
Birth centre	74	47 266	1.6	0.41 (0.30–0.55)	0.42 (0.31–0.56)
Home	7	4995	1.4	0.36 (0.14–0.96)	0.41 (0.15–1.08)
Readmission to hospital (within 28 days)	917	864 865§	1.1
Hospital	843	804 667	1	1	1
Birth centre	68	54 522	1.2	1.19 (0.86–1.65)	1.18 (0.85–1.64)
Home	6	5676	1.1	1.01 (0.35–2.90)	1.08 (0.38–3.12)

Cases with missing data were not included in rates or regression calculations.

*Logistic regression adjusted for maternal age, country of birth, gestational age and parity at 99% CI.

†Intensive care and high dependency units provided additional care—these were defined by each state and territory.

‡Excluded QLD, VIC, NT, ACT, TAS.

§Excluded VIC, NT.

ACT, Australian Capital Territory; NT, Northern Territory; QLD, Queensland; TAS, Tasmania; VIC, Victoria.