Table 5 Comparison across rural districts
From: Assessment of quality of obstetric care in Zimbabwe using the standard primipara
Outcome Indicators | Bindura | Chivi | Kwekwe | Matobo | Mutare | Mutoko | Zvimba | Tsholotsho | *p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Booking status (%) | 95.3 | 97.3 | 97.6 | 98.0 | 96.1 | 96.8 | 98.1 | 84.0 | < 0.001 |
Mean gestation at booking (weeks) | 21.6 | 19.3 | 25.0 | 25.7 | 23.4 | 23.3 | 23.9 | 23.0 | < 0.001 |
Antenatal HIV screening (%) | 34.7 | 10.4 | 14.9 | 43.6 | 69.0 | 40.2 | 70.6 | 55.0 | < 0.001 |
Initial place of onset of labour (%) | 1.1 | 48.0 | 3.5 | 58.0 | 18.3 | 26.6 | 0.1 | 55.7 | < 0.001 |
Institutional deliveries (%) | 71.1 | 90.7 | 67.1 | 85.6 | 87.8 | 75.4 | 81.1 | 77.7 | < 0.001 |
Intra partum complications detected (%) | 4.1 | 4.4 | 6.9 | 10.3 | 2.7 | 16.2 | 3.9 | 9.3 | < 0.001 |
Referrals in labour (%) | 4.6 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 1.3 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 4.4 | < 0.001 |
Caesarean section rate (%) | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 2.1 | 0.645 |
Vacuum delivery rate (%) | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | < 0.001 |
Post-partum referrals (%) | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.066 |
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PNMR (N/1000 births) | 24 | 22 | 18 | 20 | 31 | 14 | 22 | 10 | 0.234 |