Status:
COMPLETED
Health Facility Networking for Maternal Health
Lead Sponsor:
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Collaborating Sponsors:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Maternal Health Task Force
Conditions:
Provider Skill
Provider Confidence
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This study will introduce a multi-faceted intervention package which will be implemented in the newly developed network of St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (St. Paul) and the surrounding...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion Criteria:
- Sample population for each data collection instrument:
- Baseline/Endline:
- Key Informant Interviews:
- St. Paul hospital: Maternal Child Health (MCH) Head, Midwife/nurse from Labor and Delivery (L\&D), Midwife/nurse from Emergency
- Health Centers: Medical Director, Head of MCH (midwife) Midwife from L\&D, Referral focal person
- Health Facility Assessment:
- \- Manager/most senior health worker asked (one from each facility)
- Provider Survey:
- \- All providers in the MCH at both the hospital and health center level
- Chart review:
- \- All deliveries in all centers will be screened during the intervention phase. Data on every birth will be collected from the log books of each facility. The data collector will then find the medical record of that patient to assess the Standard of Care (SOC) during Ante-natal care (ANC)- if available from the chart, L\&D and screen for an obstetric complication. If there was a complication, the near miss data will be collected.
- Telephone registration log book:
- \- all phone calls between HC and Hospital
- Facility Checklists:
- \- Forms completed by Supportive Supervision Teams at quarterly visits
- Standardized BEmONC training evaluation
- \- Will be given to every provider undergoing the training, as part of the training curriculum.
- Monthly mentoring evaluations - for the six months post-training mentorship, for all providers who have undergone BEmONC training.
- Supportive Supervision Gap Identification Checklists
- \- Collected quarterly from each of the 9 facilities
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 1 2013
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2014
Estimated Enrollment :
10787 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01802957
Start Date
March 1 2013
End Date
December 1 2014
Last Update
January 28 2015
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