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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 10.
Published in final edited form as: Birth. 2018 Aug 30;46(1):69–79. doi: 10.1111/birt.12384

TABLE 3.

Blood loss outcomes by latent class assignment among 2322 hospital vaginal births attended by nurse-midwives in the United States, 2012-2017

Physiologic
Class A
Dysfunctional
Class B
Preterm
Class C
High multiparous
Class D
Total blood loss (mL) Mean ± SD 367.3 ± 258.7 440.5 ± 333.8 350.5 ± 275.8 356.5 ± 293.5
Coefficient (95% CI) Reference 73.12 (45.05-101.18)*** −16.82 (−62.45 to 28.81) −10.85 (−44.13 to 22.43)
≥500 mL PPH n (%) 178 (17.32) 198 (24.2) 21 (14.4) 54 (16.4)
OR (95% CI) Reference 1.52 (1.21-1.91)*** 0.80 (0.49-1.31) 0.94 (0.67-1.31)
≥1000 mL PPH n (%) 37 (3.6) 47 (5.7) 5 (3.4) 17 (5.2)
OR (95% CI) Reference 1.63 (1.05-2.53)* 0.95 (0.37-2.46) 1.46 (0.81-2.63)
Blood transfusion n (%) 13 (1.3) 22 (2.7) 2 (1.4) 5 (1.5)
OR (95% CI) Reference 2.16 (1.08, 4.30)* 1.08 (0.24, 4.85) 1.20 (0.43-3.41)
*

P < 0.05,

**

P < 0.01,

***

P < 0.001.