Scaling up quality improvement for safer birth in public facilities of Nepal

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Childbirth; Pregnancy and Childbirth

• Registration Number: ISRCTN16741720
• Lead Sponsor: Grand Challenges Canada

Brief Summary

2019 protocol in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31217028 (added 27/08/2019)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-03-02
• Last Update Posted: 5 January 2021
• Study Completion: 2021-07-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 89000

Inclusion Criteria

1. Women with gestational age =22 weeks
2. In labour

Exclusion Criteria

1. Referred from the labour room to operation theatre for delivery
2. Referred to other facilities
3. Do not have fetal heart sound at admission.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> To be measured using patient record review:<br> 1. Intrapartum stillbirth-In-utero fetal death during labour after 22 weeks of gestational age with no signs of life (no breathing or no heart rate until 10 minutes of life).<br> 2. First-day neonatal mortality rate<br> 3. Pre-discharge neonatal mortality-death of baby before discharge<br>