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Published in: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 1/2017

Open Access 01-12-2017 | Research article

Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention for obstetric and neonatal care in selected public health facilities across six states of India

Authors: Enisha Sarin, Subir K. Kole, Rachana Patel, Ankur Sooden, Sanchit Kharwal, Rashmi Singh, Mirwais Rahimzai, Nigel Livesley

Published in: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | Issue 1/2017

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Abstract

Background

While increase in the number of women delivering in health facilities has been rapid, the quality of obstetric and neonatal care continues to be poor in India, contributing to high maternal and neonatal mortality.

Methods

The USAID ASSIST Project supported health workers in 125 public health facilities (delivering approximately 180,000 babies per year) across six states to use quality improvement (QI) approaches to provide better care to women and babies before, during and immediately after delivery. As part of this intervention, each month, health workers recorded data related to nine elements of routine care alongside data on perinatal mortality. We aggregated facility level data and conducted segmented regression to analyse the effect of the intervention over time.

Results

Care improved to 90–99% significantly (p < 0.001) for eight of the nine process elements. A significant (p < 0.001) positive change of 30–70% points was observed during post intervention for all the indicators and 3–17% points month-to-month progress shown from the segmented results. Perinatal mortality declined from 26.7 to 22.9 deaths/1000 live births (p < 0.01) over time, however, it is not clear that the intervention had any significant effect on it.

Conclusion

These results demonstrate the effectiveness of QI approaches in improving provision of routine care, yet these approaches are underused in the Indian health system. We discuss the implications of this for policy makers.
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Mid-level performance health indicators are the district level indicators (DLHS-3) and moderately performing facilities in terms of quality are selected assuming to improve under QI intervention plan rather than poorly performing and highly performing, since the poorly performing facilities may not be improved only by QI with the existing infrastructure.
 
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Metadata
Title
Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention for obstetric and neonatal care in selected public health facilities across six states of India
Authors
Enisha Sarin
Subir K. Kole
Rachana Patel
Ankur Sooden
Sanchit Kharwal
Rashmi Singh
Mirwais Rahimzai
Nigel Livesley
Publication date
01-12-2017
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth / Issue 1/2017
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2393
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-017-1318-4

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