Period | Deliveries with live birth or FSB (n) | Live births (n) | Fresh stillbirths (n) | Early in-hospital neonatal deaths (n) | Fresh stillbirthrate† and95% CI | Early in-hospitalneonatal mortalityrate‡ |
January–June 2014 | 715 | 710 | 5 | 4 | 6.99 (2.27 to 16.24) | 5.63 (1.54 to 14.36) |
July–December 2014 | 686 | 676 | 10 | 5 | 14.58 (7.01 to 26.64) | 7.40 (2.41 to 17.18) |
January–June 2015 | 754 | 745 | 9 | 9 | 11.94 (5.47 to 22.54) | 12.08 (5.53 to 22.80) |
July–December 2015 | 772 | 769 | 3 | 5 | 3.89 (0.80 to 11.31) | 6.50 (2.11 to 15.11) |
January–June 2016 | 798 | 795 | 3 | 8 | 3.76 (0.78 to 10.94) | 10.06 (4.35 to 19.73) |
Fresh stillbirths’ numbers excluded mothers admitted to the maternity ward with no fetal heart rate on admission and stillbirths determined to be macerated by the physicians.
*QI initiative started February 2015.
†Per 1000 live births+FSB.
‡Per 1000 live births.
FSB, fresh stillbirth; QI, quality improvement.