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Table 3 Neonatal characteristics 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

 

N*

Pre-intervention

N*

Post–intervention

p-value

Preterm (<37w)

345

64 (18·6%)

504

99 (19·6%)

0·691

Birthweight (g)

363

3033·9 (±623·5)

520

3006·4 (±641·2)

0·527

Lactate > 5·45

 

122 (34·8%)

 

210 (38·7%)

0·228

Resuscitation

344

71 (20·6%)

532

129 (24·2%)

0·214

Apgar < 7 at 1 min

365

45 (12·3%)

526

83 (15·8%)

0·149

Apgar < 7 at 5 min

366

20 (5·5%)

526

35 (6·7%)

0·468

Special care nursery admission

374

56 (15·0%)

562

80 (14·2%)

0·754

Admission type

367

 

558

  

 None

 

318 (86·6%)

 

480 (86·0%)

 

 High dependency unit

 

8 (2·2%)

 

22 (3·9%)

0·387

 Intensive care unit

 

14 (3·8%)

 

15 (2·7%)

 

 Neonatal ward

 

27 (7·4%)

 

41 (7·3%)

 
  1. Data summaries are mean (±sd) or N (%), as appropriate
  2. * N reflects cases for which data were available for the variable