Table 1. Study definitions compared to national and international definitions.

Study terminology and definition	Tanzania terminology and definition	WHO terminology and definition
Intrapartum and Very Early Newborn Deaths
Facility intrapartum and pre-discharge neonatal deaths: Intrapartum stillbirths and newborn deaths that occur before discharge from facility (excluding macerated stillbirth)	Perinatal death (no exact equivalent definition): Death of a fetus from 28 weeks of gestation to 7 completed days of life including stillbirths (macerated and fresh) a	Intrapartum and very early newborn death rate: Proportion of births that result in newborn death or intrapartum death (fresh stillbirth)b
Facility Perinatal Mortality (FPM)
Perinatal death that occurs in the facility setting (woman admitted with a FHR detected, discharged with neonate deceased)	No equivalent definition	No equivalent definition
Very Early Newborn Death	Early Neonatal Death	Very Early Newborn Death
Perinatal death recorded in maternity register as live birth for which a perinatal death audit was conducted OR Perinatal death classified by perinatal death audit as live birth, dead at discharge from facility	Death within 24 hours of delivery	Death within 24 hours of delivery
Fresh stillbirth
Perinatal death where woman was admitted with a FHR detected and baby was born dead OR Perinatal death classified by perinatal death audit as fresh stillbirth	Stillbirth occurring intrapartum, with skin still intact, implying death less than 12 hours before delivery, with added criteria of weight more than 1000 g, and being born after more than 28 weeks’ gestation, and excluding those with severe lethal congenital abnormalities a	Stillbirth occurring after onset of labor and before birth (intrapartum) with a fresh or non-macerated appearance of the skin.

^a MOHCDGEC, Tanzania, 2015, Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response.

^bWHO. 2009. Monitoring emergency obstetric care: a handbook.