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Table 5 Quality of childbirth pre and post-intervention (n = 6 health centers)

From: Cost-effectiveness of an electronic clinical decision support system for improving quality of antenatal and childbirth care in rural Tanzania: an intervention study

Quality Indicator

Pre-intervention

Post-intervention

p-value

Difference

% change

1. Technical performance

0.65

0.74

0.46

  

 history taking

0.72

0.87

0.12

  

 clinical examination on admission

0.66

0.71

0.25

  

 monitoring mother

0.3

0.59

0.05

  

 monitoring new-born

0.62

0.47

0.92

  

 care and examination mother

0.5

0.58

0.60

  

 care and examination new-born

0.73

0.83

0.25

  

 delivery new-born

0.87

0.91

0.92

  

 delivery placenta

0.81

0.9

0.92

  

 counselling

0.65

0.83

0.25

  

2. Inter-personal performance

0.79

0.88

0.05

  

3. Recording

0.49

0.76

0.05

  

Total childbirth observation quality score

0.64

0.79

0.07

0.15

23.32