Health workers' perceptions of obstetric critical incident audit in Thyolo District, Malawi

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1243-1250

  Bakker, Wouter ^a   van den Akker, Thomas ^a,b   Mwagomba, Beatrice ^b   Khukulu, Rex ^b   van Elteren, Marianne ^a   van Roosmalen, Jos ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malawi)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical audit; Maternal morbidity; Maternal mortality; Obstetrics; Quality of health care; Staff development

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; DATA INTERPRETATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; LEARNING; MATERNAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEONATE; OCCUPATION; PERCEPTION; QUALITY CONTROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALAWI; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OBSTETRICS; PERCEPTION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL AUDIT; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALAWI; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STAFF DEVELOPMENT;

MALAWI; THYOLO;

EID: 80052882013     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02832.x     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Beltman JJ, van den Akker T, Lam E et al. (2011) Repetition of a sisterhood survey at district level in Malawi: the challenge to achieve MDG 5. BMJ Open. Epub ahead of print: doi:.
2. Bemelmans M, van den Akker T, Ford N et al. (2010) Providing universal access to antiretroviral therapy in Thyolo, Malawi through task shifting and decentralization of HIV/AIDS care. Tropical Medicine & International Health 15, 1413-1420.
3. Bemelmans M, van den Akker T, Pasulani O et al. (2011) Keeping health staff healthy: evaluation of a workplace initiative to reduce morbidity and mortality from HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Journal of the International AIDS Society 14, 1.
4. Drost E, van Lonkhuijzen LRCW, Meguid T, Landis Lewis D & Zeeman GG (2010) Implementing safe motherhood: a low-cost intervention to improve the management of eclampsia in a referral hospital in Malawi. British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 117, 1553-1557.
5. Graham W, Wagaarachchi P, Penney G, McCaw-Binns A, Antwi KY & Hall MH (2000) Criteria for clinical audit of the quality of hospital-based obstetric care in developing countries. Bulletin World Health Organization 78, 614-620.
6. Hardon A, Boonmongkon P & Streefland P et al. (2001) Sampling. In: Applied Health Research: Anthropology of Health and Health Care, Chapter 30. 3rd revised edn. Het Spinhuis Publishers, Amsterdam, pp. 263-277.
7. Hogan MC, Foreman KJ, Naghavi M et al. (2010) Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5. Lancet 375, 1609-1623.
8. Jamtvedt G, Young JM, Kristoffersen DT, O'Brien MA & Oxman AD (2006) Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2, CD000259.
9. Kongnyuy EJ & van den Broek N (2009) Audit for maternal and newborn health services in resource-poor countries. British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 116, 7-10.
10. Kongnyuy EJ, Mlava G & van den Broek N (2009) Facility-based maternal death review in three districts in the central region of Malawi: an analysis of causes and characteristics of maternal deaths. Womens Health Issues 19, 14-20.
11. Muffler N, Trabelssi MEH & De Brouwere V (2007) Scaling up clinical audits of obstetric cases in Morocco. Tropical Medicine & International Health 12, 1248-1257.
12. Mullan F & Frehywot S (2007) Non-physician clinicians in 47 sub-Saharan African countries. Lancet 370, 2158-2163.
13. Pattinson RC, Say L, Makin JD & Bastos MH (2005) Critical incident audit and feedback to improve perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 4, CD002961.
14. Richard F, Ouedraogo C, Zongo V et al. (2009) The difficulty of questioning clinical practice: experience of facility-based case reviews in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 116, 38-44.
15. van den Akker T, Mwagomba B, Irlam J & van Roosmalen J (2009) Using audits to reduce the incidence of uterine rupture in a Malawian district hospital. International Journal of Gynaecology & Obstetrics 107, 289-294.
16. van den Akker T, van Rhenen J, Mwagomba B, Lommerse K, Vinkhumbo S & van Roosmalen J (2011) Reduction of severe acute maternal morbidity and maternal mortality in Thyolo District, Malawi: the impact of obstetric audit. PLoS ONE, 6 e20776.
17. van Dillen J, Mesman JAJM, Zwart JJ, Bloemenkamp KWM & van Roosmalen J (2010) Introducing maternal morbidity audit in the Netherlands. British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 117, 416-421.
18. WHO (2003) Managing Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth. A Guide for Midwives and Doctors. WHO, Geneva.
19. WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, World Bank (2006) Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum and Newborn Care. A Guide for Essential Practice. Guide for Essential Practice. WHO, Geneva.