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. 2008 Mar 28;8:4. doi: 10.1186/1472-698X-8-4

Table 2.

Neonatal deaths in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam, 2005, identified by different informants and methods of data collection according to place of death. Row percentages relating to the place of death are not cumulative, since neonatal deaths were identified from over-lapping sources.

Place of Death Neonatal deaths Source of information

Hospital register CHC register CHC staff VHWs
Regional and provincial hospital 151 129 (85%) 57 (38%) 59 (39%) 94 (62%)
District hospital 60 33 (55%) 22 (37%) 32 (53%) 43 (72%)
Community Health Center 3 0 (0%) 3 (100%) 3 (100%) 2 (67%)
Home or outside health facility 67 3 (4%) 23 (34%) 31 (46%) 60 (90%)

Total 281* 168 (59%) 105 (37%) 126 (44%) 202 (71%)

*Information on place of death was missing in three cases