Can hospital audit teams identify case management problems, analyse their causes, identify and implement improvements? A cross-sectional process evaluation of obstetric near-miss case reviews in Benin

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Borchert, Matthias ^a,b   Goufodji, Sourou ^c   Alihonou, Eusèbe ^c   Delvaux, Thérèse ^d   Saizonou, Jacques ^c   Kanhonou, Lydie ^c   Filippi, Véronique ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Centre pour la Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et Démographie   (Benin)

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Audit; Benin; Near miss complications; Obstetrics; Quality assurance; West Africa

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; DIAZEPAM; METHYLDOPA; NIFEDIPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE MANAGEMENT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRYSTALLOID; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PUERPERAL INFECTION; SEPSIS; STILLBIRTH; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ANEMIA; BENIN; CASE MANAGEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE RUPTURE;

EID: 84867237392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-12-109     Document Type: Article

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