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Table 3 Perinatal outcomes in the high- and low-volume months

From: Resilience to maintain quality of intrapartum care in war torn Yemen: a retrospective pre-post study evaluating effects of changing birth volumes in a congested frontline hospital

 

High-volume month

August 2017

Low-volume month November 2017

RR (95% CI)

Perinatal deaths Of all births

(n=1034)

(n=436)

 
 

n (per 1000 total births)

n (per 1000 total births)

 

Stillbirths, in total

34 (32.9)

19 (43.6)

0.76 (0.44-1.32)

Missing information

0(-)

0 (-)

 

Intra-hospital stillbirthsb

10 (9.7)

1 (2.3)

4.22 (0.54-32.84)

Missing information

0 (-)

2 (-)

 

Perinatal deaths

Of all live births

(n=1000)

(n=417)

 
 

n (per 1000 live births)

n (per 1000 live births)

 

Intra-hospital neonatal deaths

6 (6.0)

7 (16.8)

0.36 (0.12-1.06)

Missing information

0 (-)

0 (-)

 

Perinatal outcomes of all births in sample selected for in depth quality audit

(n=365)

(n=340)

 
 

n (%)

n (%)

 

Birthweights

   

<1500 gram

11 (3.1)

9 (2.7)

1.13 (0.47-2.69)

1500-2499 gram

70 (19.4)

62 (18.3)

1.04 (0.77 – 1.42)

≥ 2500 gram

279 (77.5)

267 (79.0)

0.99 (0.91 – 1.07)

Information missing

5 (-)

2(-)

 

Congenital malformationsa

   

Congenital malformation observed during admission

3 (0.8)

3 (0.9)

0.92 (0.19-4.51)

No malformations observed

362 (99.2)

333 (99.1)

1.01 (0.91-1.12)

Information missing

0 (-)

4 (-)

 
 

n (per 1000 total births)

n (per 1000 total births)

 

Perinatal deaths during admission

   

Stillbirths, in total

16 (43.8)

13 (38.2)

1.15 (0. 56-2.35)

Information missing

0 (-)

0 (-)

 

Intra-hospital stillbirthsb

5 (13.7)

1 (3.0)

4.63 (0.54-39.43)

Information missing

0 (-)

2 (-)

 
 

(n=349)

n (per 1000 live births)

(n=327)

n (per 1000 live births)

 

Apgar score 1-6 at 5 minutes

18 (51.6)

18(55.2)

0.93 (0.49-1.76)

Information missing

0 (-)

1 (-)

 

Intra-hospital neonatal deaths

5 (14.3)

7 (21.4)

0.67(0.21-2.09)

Information missing

0 (-)

0 (-)

 
  1. aIn total, 5 of the congenital malformations were not further described. One was a cleft palate
  2. bStillborn babies with positive foetal heart rate upon admission