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Table 2 Demographics of the three study populations

From: Validating the WHO maternal near miss tool: comparing high- and low-resource settings

 

The Netherlands

Tanzania

Malawi

Study type

Prospective cohort

Prospective cohort

Prospective cohort

Period

2004-2006

2009-2011

2007-2009

Population

Nationwide

Haydom Lutheran Hospital

Thyolo District

Maternity units

98

1

29b

Reference area (km2)

41,526

51,000

1715

Live birthsa

375,657

9136

31,838

Deliveriesa

371,021

9471

33,254

  1. Data is shown in numbers
  2. aDuring study period
  3. bIncluding Thyolo District Hospital and 28 smaller, government, mission and private facilities