Tanzanian lessons in using non-physician clinicians to scale up comprehensive emergency obstetric care in remote and rural areas

Table 3 Proportions of fresh stillbirth and obstetric referrals before and after introducing CEmOC services in 2010 in three remote health centres in Morogoro region, Tanzania.

	Before CEmOC services (Jan-Feb	After CEmOC services (July-Dec)	OR (95% CI)
Fresh stillbirths
Mtimbira	4	5
Mlimba	0	4
Mwaya	0	2
Total SBF/total births	4/202	11/1372	0.4 (0.1-1.7)
Fresh stillbirth rate/1000 births	20	8
Obstetric referrals
Mtimbira	3	14
Mlimba	5	3
Mwaya	9	8
Total	17	25
Referral rate	8%	2%	0.2 (0.1-0.4)

Note: CEmOC services were launched in March 2010 at Mwaya and Mtimbira, and in June at Mlimba

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