Quality of care during childbirth in Tanzania: identification of areas that need improvement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Making use of good, evidence based routines, for management of normal childbirth is essential to ensure quality of care and prevent, identify and manage complications if they occur. Two essential routine care interventions as defined by the World Health Organization are the use of the Partograph and Active Management of the Third Stage of Labour. Both interventions have been evaluated for their ability to assist health providers to detect and deal with complications. There is however little research about the quality of such interventions for routine care. Qualitative studies can help to understand how such complex interventions are implemented. This paper reports on findings from an observation study on maternity wards in Tanzania.

Methods

The study took place in

SUBMITTER: Solnes Miltenburg A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5787311 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature