Maternal mortality and obstetric care
- Conditions
- Maternal mortality/neonatal mortalityNeonatal DiseasesNeonatal mortality
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN46950658
- Lead Sponsor
- Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Centre (CHU Sainte-Justine) (Canada)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 174688
At the hospital level:
1. Public referral hospital (district, department, regional or national)
2. Availability of surgical theatre
3. Annual number of deliveries greater than 800
4. Consent form signed by the maternity director and hospital director to participate in the study
At the individual level:
1. Women admitted for delivery including those referred to the hospital or who died in the transport to hospital
2. Pregnant women from 12 to 45 years old
At the hospital level:
1. Private hospital
2. Public hospital with less than 800 deliveries per year
3. Surgical theatre not operational
4. Hospitals where the maternal deaths audit were already implemented
5. No signed consent form directors of maternity and hospital
At the individual level:
1. Women admitted not pregnant
2. Women admitted for complications during the first quarter of pregnancy (miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy)
3. Women admitted after 42 days after the end of pregnancy
4. Late maternal deaths or deaths from accidental causes
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Global case fatality rate measured in the hospitals in post intervention period (year 4)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Distribution of principal causes of maternal morbidity and mortality <br>2. Case fatality rates for obstetric complications<br>3. Mortinatality rate in hospital <br>4. Early neonatal mortality in hospital<br>5. Obstetric interventions rate<br>6. Emergency obstetric care availability score <br>7. Human resources satisfaction score