Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
Tools for Assessment and Improvement
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Child Health
- • Assessing the functionality of job aids in supporting the performance of IMCI providers in Zambia
- • Job aids on HIV and infant feeding
- • Assessing health worker performance of IMCI in Kenya
- • Developing job aids to increase adherence to an antibiotic regimen in children with pneumonia in Niger
- • Malawi field study: Comparison of methods for assessing quality of health worker performance related to management of ill children
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Maternal and Newborn Health
- • Postpartum Family Planning Toolkit
- • Kenya: Assessment of Health Workforce Competency and Facility Readiness to Provide Quality Maternal Health Services
- • Are skilled birth attendants really skilled? A measurement method, some disturbing results and a potential way forward
- • Safe motherhood studies -- timeliness of in-hospital care for treating obstetric emergencies
- • Quality of obstetric care observed in 14 hospitals in Benin, Ecuador, Jamaica, and Rwanda
- • Safe motherhood studies -- results from Benin. Competency of skilled birth attendants. The enabling environment for skilled attendance at delivery. In-hospital delays in obstetric care (documenting the third delay)
- • Safe motherhood studies -- results from Jamaica. Competency of skilled birth attendants. The enabling environment for skilled attendance at delivery. In-hospital delays in obstetric care (documenting the third delay)
- • Safe motherhood studies -- results from Rwanda. Competency of skilled birth attendants; the enabling environment for skilled attendance at delivery. In-hospital delays in obstetric care (documenting the third delay)
- • Improving care for women suffering from pregnancy induced hypertension
- • Developing evidence-based standards for pregnancy-induced hypertension in Russia
- • Baseline assessments of essential obstetric care: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Honduras
Improvement Experiences
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Child Health
- • Using the collaborative approach to improve pediatric hospital care
- • Improving Pediatric Care in Nicaragua
- • The impact of QA methods on compliance with the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness algorithm in Niger
- • Compliance, workload, and the cost of using the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness algorithm in Niger
- • Using problem-solving teams to improve compliance with IMCI guidelines in Kenya
- • Improving adherence to cotrimoxazole for the treatment of childhood pneumonia in Niger
- • Assessing the functionality of job aids in supporting the performance of IMCI providers in Zambia
- • A comparison of computer-based and standard training in the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in Uganda
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Maternal and Newborn Health
- • Preventing postpartum hemorrhage: Why quality improvement matters
- • Niger: Quality Improvement for Maternal-Newborn Health Services
- • Using quality assessment to improve maternal care in Nicaragua
- • Designing obstetric services to reduce maternal mortality in Guatemala
- • Designing quality essential obstetric care services in Honduras
- • Increasing compliance with maternal and child care quality standards in Ecuador
- • Scaling up and institutionalizing continuous quality improvement in the free maternity and child care program in Ecuador
- • The Nicaragua Mother and Baby Friendly Health Units Initiative: factors influencing its success and sustainability
- • Improving the management of obstetric emergencies in Uganda through case management maps
- • Improving the system of care for neonates suffering from respiratory distress syndrome in Tver Oblast
- • Improving the system of care for women suffering from pregnancy-induced hypertension in Tver Oblast
- • Improving the quality of care for women with pregnancy-induced hypertension reduces costs in Tver, Russia
- • Quantifying the economic impact of using evidence-based clinical guidelines for pregnancy-induced hypertension in two hospitals
- • Improving compliance with standards for essential obstetric care in Bolivia
- • Safe Motherhood Studies—Results from Benin
- • Redesigning hospital documentation systems to improve the quality of obstetric patient records in Ecuador
Other Resources