Under-estimation of maternal and perinatal mortality revealed by an enhanced surveillance system: enumerating all births and deaths in Pakistan

Table 2 Maternal mortality, stillbirth, perinatal and neonatal mortality in LHWs and CHWs areas in Tehsil Havelian, District Abbottabad, Pakistan enhanced surveillance 2015/16^d

Events	Total			LHWs Areas			CHWs Area			p-value^e	CHW: LHW
Events	n	Rate	95% CI	n	Rate	95% CI	n	Rate	95% CI	p-value^e	CHW: LHW
Maternal Mortality^a	18	247	147–391	14	226	124–379	4	370	101–948	0.380
Neonatal Mortality^b	290	40	35–44	247	40	35–45	43	40	28–51	0.992	1.00
Early Neonatal Mortality^b	215	30	26–33	184	30	25–34	31	29	19–39	0.857	1.03
Perinatal Mortality^c	454	60	55–66	366	57	52–64	88	77	62–93	0.009	1.35
Stillbirths^c	239	32	28–36	182	29	24–33	57	50	37–63	< 0.001	1.72
Denominators (n)
Total births	7512			6375			1137
Live births	7273			6193			1080

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