• Robert L Goldenberg, Elizabeth M McClure, Alan H Jobe, Beena D Kamath-Rayne, Michael G Gravette, and Craig E Rubens.
• Department of Obstetrics, Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, USA. Electronic address: rlg88@columbia.edu.
• Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2013 Dec 1; 123 (3): 252-3.

AbstractSeveral recent studies in low-resource countries have claimed that training in-and increased use of-newborn resuscitation resulted in reduced stillbirth rates. In the present article, we explore the ability of various types of birth attendant in some low-resource country locations to gather data that accurately differentiate a stillbirth from a live birth/early neonatal death. We conclude that, in many situations, it cannot be determined whether the infant was a stillbirth or a live birth/early neonatal death, and therefore the least-biased description of study outcomes includes a combined stillbirth and live birth/neonatal death outcome. However, because defining the burden of stillbirth and neonatal death is important from a public health perspective, every effort should be made, in low-income countries and elsewhere, to distinguish between stillbirths and live births/neonatal deaths and to report the results independently. © 2013.

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