Reducing intrapartum fetal deaths through low-dose high frequency clinical mentorship in a rural hospital in Western Kenya: a quasi-experimental study

Table 4 Perinatal outcomes between pre-intervention (Oct 2015 – July 2016) and during/after intervention (Aug 2016 – May 2017)

	Intervention Hospital			Control Hospital
Perinatal Outcomes	Pre [n (%)] (n = 1086)	Post [n (%)] (n = 1102)	P – value	Pre [n (%)] (n = 1272)	Post [n (%)] (n = 1144)	P – value
Live births	1074 (98.9)	1094 (99.3)	0.1758	1247 (98.0)	1110 (97.0)	0.0547*
Babies born with low APGAR scores ^a	18 (1.7)	40 (3.7)	0.0021*	4 (0.3)	4 (0.4)	0.4345
Macerated stillbirths	7 (0.6)	7 (0.6)	0.4891	5 (0.4)	16 (1.4)	0.0039*
Fresh stillbirths	5 (0.5)	1 (0.1)	0.0491*	20 (1.6)	18 (1.6)	0.4991
Neonatal deaths ^a	5 (0.5)	3 (0.3)	0.2313	4 (0.3)	1 (0.1)	0.1122

^aThe denominators for this analysis are 1074 and 1094 for the mentorship facility and 1247 and 1110 for the control facility for Oct’15 – July’16 and Aug’16 – May’17 periods respectively
*P ≤ 0.05 statistically significant

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