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Table 5 Admissions and mortality in the NCUs before and after ABC

From: Quality improvement strategies to improve inpatient management of small and sick newborns across All Babies Count supported hospitals in rural Rwanda

 

Baseline

Endline

P-Value

n

%

n

%

Neonatal admissions per NCU, median [IQR]

121

[77–155]

137

[79–184]

0.499

Neonatal deaths per NCU, median [IQR]

13

[11-22]

12

[6-17]

0.197

Overall case fatality rate (%) in all NCUs

105/850

12.4

82/1049

7.8

0.001

Neonatal admissions that were preterm/LBW per NCU, median [IQR]

49

[12–58]

41

[32–55]

0.866

Neonatal deaths that were preterm/LBW per NCU, median [IQR]

8

[6-10]

5

[4-7]

0.397

Case fatality rate (%) among preterm/LBW in all NCUs

52/283

18.4

40/343

11.7

0.018