Maternal Baseline Characteristics from a South African Hospital, Jan-Jul 2023

Maternal baseline characteristics of postpartum participants at Tygerberg Academic Hospital between January and July 2023. The dataset is 5.5 KB in size and was authored by Denise Sproul. It was last updated on 2026-05-28 and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze demographic and health profiles of postpartum mothers based on baseline characteristics mentioned in the description
• Study associations between maternal characteristics and postpartum outcomes based on the hospital cohort data
• Benchmark maternal health indicators for a specific hospital and time period based on the collected participant data

Strengths

• Data is explicitly time-bound to a 7-month period in 2023.
• The dataset is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• The source institution, Tygerberg Academic Hospital, is named.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Denise Sproul

Time Range

January to July 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 17:33:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tygerberg Academic Hospital, South Africa