Table 1 Quality assessment grade table of impact of skilled birth attendance on stillbirth
Quality Assessment | Summary of Findings | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Directness | No of events | |||||||
No. of studies (ref) | Design | Limitations | Consistency | Generalizability to population of interest | Generalizability to intervention of interest | Intervention | Control | Relative Risk (95% CI) |
Impact of skilled birth attendance on stillbirth: MODERATE outcome specific quality | ||||||||
2 | Before-after studies | Before-after studies had no control group but only comparison between two time periods | Low heterogeneity. Studies were consistent with both studies showing direction of benefit and out of these two, one was statistically significant | Yes, all studies were in developing countries | yes | Generic inverse variance | Generic inverse variance | 0.77 (0.69 - 0.85) |