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6.6 SUMMARY OF RESULTS
The very low proportion of intermediate care women actually cared for in a maternity
with a MIC service represents one of the most important piece of information of this
chapter as well as the variability of this proportion between provinces. Information that
need to be linked to the longer distances that the women need to travel to reach a MIC
unit in some provinces and the varying rate of premature babies cared for in MIC
maternities between provinces.
Table 44 summarizes some of the important information gathered in this chapter about
the intermediate care activity of the MIC-services.
Description of the column:
• Column 1 is the total number of women that delivered in that hospital
• Column 2 is the number of MIC-beds in that hospital
• Column 3 is the Ratio MIC beds/M beds
• Column 4 is the proportion of women theoretically requiring intermediate
care in that hospital
• Column 5 is the proportion of women theoretically requiring intermediate
care divided by the amount of MIC-beds in that hospital
• Column 6 is the proportion of transfers to that hospital divided by the amount
of MIC-beds in that hospital
• Column 7 is the total amount of transfers in that hospital
• Column 8 is the amount of intra-uterine transfers in that hospital
• Column 9 is the number of premature neonates (