Improving access to emergency obstetric care in underserved rural Tanzania: a prospective cohort study

Table 3 Met need for EmONC services and case fatality rate before and after the intervention in the control and intervention health centres

	Total deliveries	Maternal deaths	Maternal morbidities	Expected women with obstetric complications	Met need for EmONC	Case fatality rate	95% CI
Intervention HCs
Baseline	4392	7	459	1025	45%	1.5%	0.6–3.1
Intervention period	12,918	22	2010	1691	119%	1.1%	0.7–1.6
Control HCs
Baseline	5709	6	282	529	53%	3.3%	1.2–7.0
Intervention period	11,233	5	664	865	77%	0.8%	0.2–1.7

Note: Baseline = Jul 2014 – June 2016 and intervention period = Jul 2016 – June 2019; Expected women with obstetric complications was estimated at 15% of the expected births in the catchment populations [4, 15]

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