Neonatal mortality, risk factors and causes: a prospective population-based cohort study in urban Pakistan
Imtiaz Jehan, Hillary Harris, Sohail Salat, Amna Zeb, Naushaba Mobeen, Omrana Pasha, Elizabeth M McClure, Janet Moore, Linda L Wright & Robert L Goldenberg
Volume 87, Number 2, February 2009, 130-138
Table 4. Medical care received by infants who died within 28 days postpartum and their mothers, both at delivery and before neonatal death, in prospective study in an urban Pakistani population, 2003–2005
| Medical care | Deaths |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| All No. (%)a | Within 48 hours No. (%)a | Within 3–7 days No. (%)a | Within 8–28 days No. (%)a | |
| Neonatal death | 53 (100) | 24 (45.3) | 15 (28.3) | 14 (26.4) |
| Mode of delivery (n = 51) | ||||
| Vaginal | 33 (64.7) | 10 (45.5) | 12 (80.0) | 11 (78.6) |
| Caesarean section | 18 (35.3) | 12 (54.5) | 3 (20.0) | 3 (21.4) |
| Place of death (n = 51) | ||||
| Home | 13 (25.5) | 2 (9.1) | 5 (33.3) | 6 (42.9) |
| Hospital | 38 (74.5) | 20 (90.9) | 10 (66.7) | 8 (57.1) |
| Treatment before death (n = 51) | ||||
| Yes | 45 (88.2) | 20 (90.9) | 13 (86.7) | 12 (85.7) |
| No | 6 (11.8) | 2 (9.1) | 2 (13.3) | 2 (14.3) |
| Place of treatment (n = 45) | ||||
| Clinic | 6 (13.3) | 1 (5.0) | 2 (15.4) | 3 (25.0) |
| Hospital | 39 (86.7) | 19 (95.0) | 11 (84.6) | 9 (75.0) |
a Denominators for demographic and clinical characteristics may differ due to non-response.