The OBS UK Dashboard: an interactive tool for representative trial site selection to facilitate equality and diversity in maternity research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obstetric Bleeding Study UK (OBS UK) (award ID: 152057) is a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)-funded stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention for postpartum haemorrhage. This was developed in Wales and evaluated in a feasibility study, with improvements in maternal outcomes observed. Generalisability of the findings is limited by lack of control data and limited ethnic diversity in the Welsh obstetric patient population compared to the United Kingdom (UK): 94% of the Welsh population identifies as White, versus 82% in the UK. Non-White ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation are linked to increased risk of adverse maternal outcomes. Traditionally, decisions regarding site selection are based on desire to complete t

SUBMITTER: Elsmore A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11429411 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature