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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 9.
Published in final edited form as: Int Health. 2013 Jun 26;5(3):180–195. doi: 10.1093/inthealth/iht011

Table 2.

Baseline and intervention period mortality rates by randomized controlled trial arm, unadjusted for clustering or the factorial nature of the trial

Baseline (1 June 2007 – 30 September 2008)
Intervention (1 October 2008 – 31 December 2010)
No FI FI No CI CI Control FI only CI only FI + CI No FI FI No CI CI Control FI only CI only FI + CI

No.
   Births 7351 7225 7587 6989 3718 3869 3633 3356 9992 10584 10247 10329 4912 5335 5080 5249
   Live births 7114 6993 7368 6739 3613 3755 3501 3238 9714 10272   9931 10055 4766 5165 4948 5107
   Stillbirths   237   232   219   250   105   114   132   118   278     312     316     274   146   170   132   142
      Mascerated     44     42     39     47     20     19     24     23     58       49       59       48     33     26     25     23
      Fresh   128   110   120   118     59     61     69     49   127     165     162     130     67     95     60     70
   Neonatal deaths   217   200   232   185   111   121   106     79   310     284     308     286   162   146   148   138
      Early (0 – 6 days)   180   156   189   147     94     95     86     61   242     236     254     224   130   124   112   112
      Late (7 – 28 days)     37     44     43     38     17     26     20     18     68       48       54       62     32     22     36     26
   Perinatal deaths   417   388   408   397   199   209   218   179   520     548     570     498   276   294   244   254
   Maternal deaths     29     26     29     26     15     14     14     12     21       26       25       22     10     15     11     11
Mortality rate
   Stillbirth rate per 1000 births     32.2     32.1     28.9     35.8     28.2     29.5     36.3     35.2     27.8       29.5       30.8       26.5     29.7     31.9     26.0     27.1
   NMR per 1000 live births     30.5     28.6     31.5     27.5     30.7     32.2     30.3     24.4     31.9       27.6       31.0       28.4     34.0     28.3     29.9     27.0
   Early NMR per 1000 live births (0 – 6 days)     25.3     22.3     25.7     21.8     26.0     25.3     24.6     18.8     24.9       23.0       25.6       22.3     27.3     24.0     22.6     21.9
   Late NMR per 1000 live births (7 – 28 days)       5.2       6.3       5.8       5.6       4.7       6.9       5.7       5.6       7.0         4.7         5.4         6.2       6.7       4.3       7.3       5.1
   PMR per 1000 births (stillbirths and early neonatal deaths)     56.7     53.7     53.8     56.8     53.5     54.0     60.0     53.3     52.0       51.8       55.6       48.2     56.2     55.1     48.0     48.4
   MMR per 100 000 live births   407.6   371.8   393.6   385.8   415.2   372.8   399.9   370.6   216.2     253.1     251.7     218.8   209.8   290.4   222.3   215.4

CI: community intervention; FI: facilities intervention; MMR: maternal mortality ratio; NMR: neonatal mortality rate; PMR: perinatal mortality rate.