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4 Maternal and perinatal mortality audits

Objectives

When you have completed this unit you should be able to:

  • Understand the meaning of a mortality audit.
  • Arrange and manage a perinatal mortality meeting.
  • Write a perinatal mortality report.
  • Use the Perinatal Problem Identification Programme (PPIP).
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4-1 What is an audit?
4-2 Why conduct an audit of health care?
4-3 What is a mortality audit?
4-4 Where and when is a mortality audit of a health care service carried out?
4-5 Who conducts a mortality audit?
4-6 How is a mortality audit done?
4-7 What is a morbidity audit?
4-8 What is a maternal care audit?
4-9 What is a perinatal care audit?
4-10 Can maternal and perinatal mortality audits be combined?
4-11 What is a perinatal mortality meeting?
4-12 Who should attend a perinatal mortality meeting?
4-13 Who should arrange perinatal mortality meetings?
4-14 How is a perinatal mortality meeting arranged?
4-15 How often should perinatal mortality meetings be held?
4-16 What information should be collected for a perinatal mortality meeting?
4-17 How should a perinatal death be presented?
4-18 How are the deaths discussed at a perinatal mortality meeting?
4-19 Why are good patient notes important?
4-20 In summary, what are the steps in managing a perinatal mortality meeting?
4-21 What problems may occur with perinatal mortality meetings?
4-22 Is confidentiality important in a perinatal mortality meeting?
4-23 Should morbidity also be discussed at a mortality meeting?
4-24 At which perinatal mortality meeting should referred patients be discussed?
4-25 Should all perinatal deaths be discussed?
4-26 What is a ‘great save’?
4-27 Is a perinatal mortality meeting a good opportunity for teaching and learning?
4-28 What is a perinatal mortality report?
4-29 How is a perinatal mortality report prepared?
4-30 What is the perinatal problem identification programme?
4-31 How is the data entered onto the Perinatal Problem Identification Programme?
4-32 What are the goals of the Perinatal Problem Identification Programme?
4-33 Why is it important to establish the pattern of disease?
4-34 What is a feed back meeting?
4-35 How are the data gathering sites grouped?
4-36 What problems remain with the use of the perinatal problem identification programme in South Africa?
4-37 How do results compare between different areas?
4-38 What is the Saving Babies report?
Case study 1
Case study 2
Case study 3
Case study 4
PPIP classifications of perinatal deaths
 
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