Making Every Baby Count
9789241511223-eng
9789241511223-eng
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Contents<br />
Acronyms and abbreviations 1<br />
Acknowledgements 2<br />
Foreword 4<br />
Executive summary 5<br />
Chapter 1. Getting started 10<br />
1.1 What is this guide about?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />
1.2 Why is this guide important? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
1.3 Who is this guide for? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />
1.4 What does this guide aim to achieve?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />
1.5 What does this guide include? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
Chapter 2. Definitions and classification 16<br />
2.1 Notes on terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />
2.2 Mortality outcome definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
Definition and timing of stillbirths 18<br />
Definition and timing of neonatal deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />
2.3 Medical causes of death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
Classifying causes of stillbirths and neonatal deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />
2.4 Collection of a minimum set of perinatal indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />
2.5 Modifiable factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25<br />
Chapter 3. Auditing deaths that occur at the health-care facility 28<br />
3.1 Setting up the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />
3.2 The six-step mortality audit cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />
Step 1: Identifying cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />
Step 2: Collecting information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
Step 3: Analysing information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />
Step 4: Recommending solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br />
Step 5: Implementing changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />
Step 6: Evaluating and refining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />
Chapter 4. Auditing deaths that occur in the community 42<br />
4.1 The importance of review and response to deaths in the community. . . . . . . . . . 43<br />
4.2 Setting up the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43<br />
Identifier-reporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43<br />
Reviewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44<br />
Transmission of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45