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Appendix 4.3: Included items dealing with non-clinical interventions and maternal mortality<br />

Author<br />

(year)<br />

(IV)/(EV)<br />

Service organisation<br />

Training and audit<br />

Awan<br />

(1989)<br />

(+)/(-)<br />

Bhatt<br />

(1989)<br />

(-)/(-)<br />

Bugalho<br />

(1993)<br />

(-)/(-)<br />

Target population Brief intervention description Targeted<br />

outcome(s)<br />

Women in general<br />

Infants in general<br />

Comprehensive MCH programme in<br />

Lahore, Pakistan, with the provision of<br />

one MCH centre in each of 8 urban and 2<br />

rural settings, with targeted staff<br />

supervision and peer review.<br />

Women in general Establishment of routine medical audit<br />

throughout obstetrics department and<br />

confidential review of maternal deaths.<br />

Women in general<br />

Neonates in general<br />

Routine daily and weekly perinatal<br />

audit. In<strong>for</strong>mation was documented<br />

visibly on a board on the wall in the<br />

delivery room in which staff associated<br />

with a perinatal death were indicated<br />

by name.<br />

Maternal<br />

mortality<br />

Infant mortality<br />

Maternal<br />

mortality<br />

Neonatal<br />

mortality<br />

Perinatal<br />

mortality<br />

Stillbirth<br />

Findings summary<br />

Appendix 4.3<br />

Declines in both MMR and IMR in the<br />

intervention areas, with end-point<br />

rates <strong>for</strong> IMR lower in the intervention<br />

area than the national average.<br />

Medical audit introduced in 1965.<br />

Maternal mortality was found to have<br />

decreased by 1984.<br />

Perinatal mortality showed a<br />

significant but transient improvement<br />

during the observation period 1982-<br />

1991.<br />

What are the effects of different models of delivery <strong>for</strong> improving maternal and infant health outcomes <strong>for</strong> poor people in urban areas in low income<br />

and lower middle income countries?<br />

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