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Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention for obstetric and neonatal care in selected public health facilities across six states of India

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, May 2017
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Title
Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention for obstetric and neonatal care in selected public health facilities across six states of India
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, May 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12884-017-1318-4
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Enisha Sarin, Subir K. Kole, Rachana Patel, Ankur Sooden, Sanchit Kharwal, Rashmi Singh, Mirwais Rahimzai, Nigel Livesley

Abstract

While increase in the number of women delivering in health facilities has been rapid, the quality of obstetric and neonatal care continues to be poor in India, contributing to high maternal and neonatal mortality. The USAID ASSIST Project supported health workers in 125 public health facilities (delivering approximately 180,000 babies per year) across six states to use quality improvement (QI) approaches to provide better care to women and babies before, during and immediately after delivery. As part of this intervention, each month, health workers recorded data related to nine elements of routine care alongside data on perinatal mortality. We aggregated facility level data and conducted segmented regression to analyse the effect of the intervention over time. Care improved to 90-99% significantly (p < 0.001) for eight of the nine process elements. A significant (p < 0.001) positive change of 30-70% points was observed during post intervention for all the indicators and 3-17% points month-to-month progress shown from the segmented results. Perinatal mortality declined from 26.7 to 22.9 deaths/1000 live births (p < 0.01) over time, however, it is not clear that the intervention had any significant effect on it. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of QI approaches in improving provision of routine care, yet these approaches are underused in the Indian health system. We discuss the implications of this for policy makers.

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Unknown 99 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 21 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 14%
Student > Master 12 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 8%
Student > Postgraduate 6 6%
Other 16 16%
Unknown 22 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 27 27%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 17%
Social Sciences 15 15%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 2%
Psychology 2 2%
Other 8 8%
Unknown 28 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 May 2017.
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#3,672,071
of 22,968,808 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#967
of 4,223 outputs
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#65,399
of 310,760 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#24
of 75 outputs
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