Objectives: To evaluate the clinical, behavioral and health-care associated risk factors of intrapartum perinatal mortality (IPPM).
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Setting: Labor room and postnatal wards of a teaching hospital in North India.
Participants: Pregnant women were eligible for enrolment in the study if period of gestation at delivery was 35 weeks or more or baby weighed at least 2000 g at birth, index pregnancy was not booked in antenatal clinic of the study hospital and fetus was delivered within 24 h of admission in the hospital.