Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: The PartoMa Project for Saving Lives at Birth An Intervention Based Study to Strengthen the Quality of Monitoring, Action and Triage During Labour at an East African Referral Hospital
Brief Summary:
OVERALL OBJECTIVE In an East African referral hospital, to analyze the effect on quality of intrapartum care when implementing first locally agreed and achievable guidelines and a continual in-house training program and later on converting the guidelines to an eHealth solution for strengthening partogram-based monitoring-to-action during labour.
INTERVENTIONS 1. WHO paper partograms, locally developed labour management guidelines and continual in-house education. 2. A low-tech triage system for intrapartum care, based on the locally developed guidelines. 3. An eHealth solution in supportion partogram-associated monitoring-to-action during labour.
OVERALL DESIGN Three intervention-based pre vs. post studies. SETTING Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mnazi Mmoja Hospital, Zanzibar.
POPULATION Labouring women delivering at the study site from October 2014 to April 2017 and their offspring, as well as health providers. Women and their offspring will be enrolled at/after unset of labour and followed until discharge.
ENDPOINTS The primary endpoint is perinatal mortality occurring intra-hospital. For secondary outcomes, please see below.
STUDY TIME Data collection from September 2014 to April 2017.