A Neonatal Resuscitation Curriculum in Malawi, Africa: Did It Change In-Hospital Mortality?

Table 3

Birth outcomes at St. Gabriel’s Hospital before and after LPCH neonatal resuscitation training.

	Preintervention	Postintervention
Total deliveries	3449	3515
Total neonatal deaths	72	77
Total maternal deaths	14	7
Neonatal mortality	20.876 per 1000	21.906 per 1000
Maternal mortality	4.059 per 1000	1.991 per 1000
5-minute Apgar score less than 5	131	66

Fisher’s exact test indicates that the difference between pre- and postintervention percent neonatal mortality is not statistically significant, (𝑃=0.86). The difference between pre- and postintervention percent maternal mortality is not statistically significant, (𝑃=0.24).