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. 2017 Jan 19;17:42. doi: 10.1186/s12884-017-1222-y

Table 4.

SMGL data sources by groups of indicators

Period and Indicator Uganda Zambia
Community Health Center IV and Hospitals Health Centers III and II Community Health Centers and Hospitals
Baseline (June 2011–May 2012)
 Routine and Emergency Obstetric Care Indicators NA Facility Assessment Facility Assessment NA Facility Assessment
 Institutional Deliveries NA Individual Outcome Data (POM) Enhanced Aggregate Outcome Data NA Enhanced Aggregate Outcome Data
 AMTSL use NA Individual Outcome Data (POM) Enhanced Aggregate Outcome Data NA NA
 Direct Obstetric Complications Prevalence Rates NA Individual Outcome Data; Triangulation of facility registers Enhanced Aggregate Outcome Data NA Enhanced Aggregate Outcome Data
 Case Specific Maternal Mortality and Case Fatality Rates RAMOS RAPID Enhanced Aggregate Outcome Data 4-distirct Censusa Individual Maternal Deaths
 Population Maternal Mortality RAMOS NA NA 4-distirct Censusa NA
Year 1 (June 2012–May 2013)
 Routine and Emergency Obstetric Care Indicators NA Facility Assessment Facility Assessment NA Facility Assessment
 Institutional Deliveries NA Individual Outcome Data (POM) Enhanced Aggregate Outcome Data NA Enhanced Aggregate Outcome Data
 AMTSL use NA Individual Outcome Data (POM) Enhanced Aggregate Outcome Data NA NA
 Direct Obstetric Complications Prevalence Rates NA Individual Outcome Data; Triangulation of facility registers Enhanced Aggregate Outcome Data NA Enhanced Aggregate Outcome Data
 Case Specific Maternal Mortality and Case Fatality Rates RAMOS RAPID Enhanced Aggregate Outcome Data SMAG Reportingb Individual Maternal Deaths
 Population Maternal Mortality RAMOS NA NA NA NA

aConducted in 2012; population maternal mortality rates were estimated at baseline but comparable data collection at the end of Year 1 was not conducted

bSafe Motherhood Action Groups started to report community maternal deaths in 2013 but they cover less than a third of population of the 4 districts in Zambia