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Table 3 Impacts of interventions for maternal health in quasi-experimental studies without control groups in resource limited countries

From: Maternal health interventions in resource limited countries: a systematic review of packages, impacts and factors for change

Country

Interventions

(from table 1)*

Time

Interval

(years)

Odds ratio and 95% CI of EmOC services indicators

   

Births in EmOC

facility

CFR

CSR

Tanzania [55]

5-8

4

3.00 (1.46 - 6.18)

0.66 (0.11 - 4.04)

1.51 (0.15 - 15.46)

Ethiopia [55]

6,7,8

4

1.26 (0.15 - 10.23)

0.47 (0.16 - 1.44)

1.64 (1.50 - 1.80)

Bangladesh [56]

1,6-8,11

6

2.36 (2.33 - 2.39)

0.04 (0.03 - 0.05)

2.00 (0.37 - 10.97)

Mali [57]

2,6,8,9

3

2.78 (2.70 - 2.86)

0.48 (0.32 - 0.73)

1.09 (0.94 - 1.25)

Peru [42]

1,6,7,9,15

4

0.96 (0.91 - 1.02)

0.06 (0.00 - 34.26)

2.53 (1.93 - 3.33)

Rwanda [58]

6,7,8

4

0.94 (0.88 - 0.99)

0.56 (0.26 - 1.20)

1.59 (1.41 - 1.60)

Mozambique [59]

6,7,8,9

4

3.91 (3.80 - 4.02)

0.54 (0.35 - 0.84)

-

Tanzania [60]

1

2

41 (10 - 171)

-

 

India [53]

6-11

15

4.13 (1.99 - 8.55)

-

-

Nepal [54]

1,2,5-8,11

10

2.52 (1.04 - 6.11)

-

-

Vietnam [61]††

6-9,15

4

3.11 (2.53 - 3.82)

1.2 (0.99 - 1.46)

-

38 (2 - 636)

1.43 (1.02 - 1.99)

Pakistan [62]

3, 6,16

2.5

2.04 (1.83 - 2.28)

-

1.44 (1.09 - 1.91)

Mozambique [63]†

7,8,9,10

3

8.61 (8.04 - 9.23)

-

2.69 (2.54 - 2.85)

Senegal [38]

5-8,15

3

-

0.42 (0.09 - 1.84)

2.75 (0.27 - 27.72)

Tanzania [41]

5,6,7,8

5

-

0.32 (0.21 - 0.48)

3.83 (1.63 - 8.99)

Nigeria [43]

5,6,7,8

6

-

0.72 (0.31 - 1.66)

1.12 (1.07 - 1.17)

S Leone [64]

1,6-8,12

6

-

0.11 (0.03 - 0.36)

1.68 (1.50 - 1.87)

Nigeria [65]

2,6,7,8

4

-

0.89 (0.31 - 2.61)

17 (1 - 300)

Nigeria [44, 45]

1,2,6,7,8

6

-

0.17 (0.07 - 0.39)

-

S Leone [66, 67]

1,2,5,6,9

3

-

0.43 (0.08 - 2.21)

-

Nigeria [46, 47]

2,5-8,12

5

-

0.17 (0.01 - 4.74)

-

  1. Note: * The numbers given to the interventions correspond to those given in table 1; CSR = caesarean section rate; CFR = case fatality rate; † Only one part of the report is included here as the program had other sites and the data were not combined. †† Had two interventional areas: a) Hai Lang district hospital and b) Hoang Hoa district hospital.