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Table 2 Newborn health outcomes at health facilities in the ten implementation districts, 2015–2018

From: A practice improvement package at scale to improve management of birth asphyxia in Rwanda: a before-after mixed methods evaluation

 

Year

Annual improvement, absolute and percent

95% Confidence Interval

2015

2016

2017

2018

Neonatal admissions to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit due to asphyxia per 1000 live births

22.0

20.9

13.4

13.9

−2.8 (12.9%)

−1.8 to −3.8 (8.3–17.5%)

Neonatal deaths at the health facility due to asphyxia per 1000 live births

3.8

3.2

2.9

3.3

−0.2 (4.2%)

− 0.01 to − 0.3 (0.2–6.3%)

Fresh stillbirth at the health facility per 1000 deliveries

10.2

9.7

9.4

7.5

− 0.6 (6.2%)

− 0.2 to − 1.1 (2.1–11.4%)

Newborn Deaths within 30 min of birth at health facilities per 1000 deliveries

3.2

2.8

3.0

2.6

−0.1 (4.0%)

+ 0.03 to 0.2* (+ 1.2% to − 8.0%)

  1. *p = 0.06