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Table 1 Maternal characteristics in pre- and post-intervention groups

From: A before and after study of the impact on obstetric and perinatal outcomes following the introduction of an educational package of fetal heart rate monitoring education coupled with umbilical artery lactate sampling in a low resource setting labor ward in South Africa

 

Pre-intervention (N = 374)

Post –intervention (N = 562)

p-value

Maternal age (y)

27·4 (±6·1)

27·4 (±6·6)

0·897

Gestation (w)

38·8 (±3·1) (n = 345)

38·8 (±3·2) (n = 504)

0·963

Gravidity

2 (1–3;1–7)

2) 1–3;1–8)

0·672

Parity

1 (0–2;0–5)

1 (0–2;0–7)

0·820

Nulliparous

136 (36·7%)

195 (36·2%)

0·899

Previous uterine surgery

53 (14·7%)

56 (10·6%)

0·072

HIV status

79 (21·8%)

123 (23·0%)

0·655

HIV treatment

75 (96·2%)

109 (92·4%)

0·369

  1. Data summaries are mean (±sd), median (IQR,R) or N (%), as appropriate