Ending Eclampsia, 2019 This intervention, which targeted PHC facilities, has resulted in a number of notable successes. Results showed improved PHC provider knowledge, abilities, and practices for detecting, preventing, and managing PE/E, improved facility readiness to provide PE/E services, improved…
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Life-Saving Medicines and Equipment in Facilities in Bangladesh
Ending Eclampsia, 2017 Findings showed many facilities lack written guidelines and protocols, ANC and PNC registers, and essential infrastructure for quality health services. Blood pressure machines, catheters, urine bags, oxygen machines and masks, magnesium sulphate and calcium gluconate are also…
Criteria-Based Audit of Quality of Care to Women with Severe Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia in a Referral Hospital in Accra, Ghana
PLOS One, 2015 Study findings showed that criteria-based audits can improve quality of care and reduce maternal morbidity and mortality, and that they can be an effective tool for determining quality of care, identifying gaps in standard of care, and allowing…
Webinar Presentation – Getting Magnesium Sulphate to the Women Who Need It: Global, National, and Local Processes
1) Beth Yeager – Global Health Supply Chain Program Procurement and Supply Management; Director, MNCH Task Order; Chair, Maternal Health Supplies Caucus “Challenges in Procurement of Magnesium Sulfate” 2) Fabienne Bochaton & Alessandra Tomazzini – Concept Foundation “Toward WHO PreQualification…
Halving maternal and newborn deaths in health facilities in nine countries
By Karen Kirk and Charlotte Warren Last week, nine countries joined the new Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. The Network is a product of the WHO’s “Standards for Improving Quality of Maternal and…
