TABLE 3.

SMGL Indicator Baseline and Endline Data Sources in Uganda and Zambia SMGL-Supported Districts  

Period and IndicatorUgandaZambia
CommunityHealth Center IV and HospitalsHealth Centers III and IICommunityHealth Centers and Hospitals
Baseline (June 2011–May 2012)
    Routine and emergency obstetric care indicators--HFAHFA--HFA
    Institutional deliveries (vaginal and cesarean deliveries)--Individual outcome data and triangulation of facility registers (POMS)Facility aggregate outcome data--HFA and facility aggregate outcome data
    Direct obstetric complications prevalence rates--POMS and RAPIDFacility aggregate outcome data--HFA and facility aggregate outcome data
    Stillbirth and predischarge neonatal mortality rates--POMS and RAPIDFacility aggregate outcome data--HFA and facility aggregate outcome data
    Cause-specific maternal mortality and case fatality rates--POMS and RAPID triangulated with RAMOSFacility aggregate outcome data--Facility aggregate outcome data triangulated with census-identified maternal deaths
    Population maternal mortality ratiosRAMOS----4-district censusa--
Endline (January–December 2016)
    Routine and emergency obstetric care indicators--HFAHFA--HFA
    Institutional deliveries (vaginal and cesarean deliveries)--POMSPOMS--HFA and facility aggregate outcome data
    Direct obstetric complications prevalence rates--POMS and RAPIDPOMS and RAPID--HFA and facility aggregate outcome data
    Stillbirth and predischarge neonatal mortality rates--POMS and RAPIDPOMS and RAPID--HFA and facility aggregate outcome data
    Cause-specific maternal mortality and case fatality rates in facilities--POMS and RAPID triangulated with RAMOSPOMS and RAPID triangulated with RAMOS--Facility MDSR; individual cases triangulated with census-identified maternal deaths
    Population maternal mortality ratiosRAMOS----4-district censusa--
  • Abbreviations: HFA, health facility assessment; MDSR, maternal death surveillance and response; POMS, Pregnancy Outcome Monitoring System; RAPID, Rapid Ascertainment Process for Institutional Deaths; RAMOS, Reproductive Age Mortality Studies.

  • a Conducted in 2012 and 2017 for the previous 18 months; 12-month pre-census population maternal mortality ratios were estimated after adjustments for underreporting of population and births.