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Counting every stillbirth and neonatal death through mortality audit to improve quality of care for every pregnant woman and her baby

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, September 2015
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Title
Counting every stillbirth and neonatal death through mortality audit to improve quality of care for every pregnant woman and her baby
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, September 2015
DOI 10.1186/1471-2393-15-s2-s9
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Kate J Kerber, Matthews Mathai, Gwyneth Lewis, Vicki Flenady, Jan Jaap HM Erwich, Tunde Segun, Patrick Aliganyira, Ali Abdelmegeid, Emma Allanson, Nathalie Roos, Natasha Rhoda, Joy E Lawn, Robert Pattinson

Abstract

While there is widespread acknowledgment of the need for improved quality and quantity of information on births and deaths, there has been less movement towards systematically capturing and reviewing the causes and avoidable factors linked to deaths, in order to affect change. This is particularly true for stillbirths and neonatal deaths which can fall between different health care providers and departments. Maternal and perinatal mortality audit applies to two of the five objectives in the Every Newborn Action Plan but data on successful approaches to overcome bottlenecks to scaling up audit are lacking. We reviewed the current evidence for facility-based perinatal mortality audit with a focus on low- and middle-income countries and assessed the status of mortality audit policy and implementation. Based on challenges identified in the literature, key challenges to completing the audit cycle and affecting change were identified across the WHO health system building blocks, along with solutions, in order to inform the process of scaling up this strategy with attention to quality. Maternal death surveillance and review is moving rapidly with many countries enacting and implementing policies and with accountability beyond the single facility conducting the audits. While 51 priority countries report having a policy on maternal death notification in 2014, only 17 countries have a policy for reporting and reviewing stillbirths and neonatal deaths. The existing evidence demonstrates the potential for audit to improve birth outcomes, only if the audit cycle is completed. The primary challenges within the health system building blocks are in the area of leadership and health information. Examples of successful implementation exist from high income countries and select low- and middle-income countries provide valuable learning, especially on the need for leadership for effective audit systems and on the development and the use of clear guidelines and protocols in order to ensure that the audit cycle is completed. Health workers have the power to change health care routines in daily practice, but this must be accompanied by concrete inputs at every level of the health system. The system requires data systems including consistent cause of death classification and use of best practice guidelines to monitor performance, as well as leaders to champion the process, especially to ensure a no-blame environment, and to access change agents at other levels to address larger, systemic challenges.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Ethiopia 1 <1%
Unknown 379 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 76 20%
Researcher 43 11%
Student > Postgraduate 33 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 9%
Student > Bachelor 27 7%
Other 79 21%
Unknown 94 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 108 28%
Nursing and Health Professions 61 16%
Social Sciences 34 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 3%
Psychology 8 2%
Other 53 14%
Unknown 110 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 05 October 2023.
All research outputs
#2,835,132
of 24,567,524 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#763
of 4,586 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,739
of 273,146 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#22
of 108 outputs
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