Human resources for emergency obstetric care in northern Tanzania: distribution of quantity or quality?

Table 6 Spearman's rank correlation analysis between the rankings of available qualified BemOC staff, met need and percent deliveries in EmOC facilities (as measures of utilization) and number of qualified BemOC and CemOC facilities (as measures of quality) in the districts

		BEmOC qualified personnel per 500 000
Met need	Correlation coefficient	.943(**)
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.005
Percent deliveries in EmOC facilities	Correlation coefficient	.829(*)
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.042
BEmOC facilities per 500 000	Correlation coefficient	.314
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.544
CEmOC facilities per 500 000	Correlation coefficient	.886(*)
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.019

* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level. ** Correlation is significant at the 0.001 level.

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