Neonatal deaths contribute a growing proportion to childhood mortality, and increasing
access to inpatient newborn care has been identified as a potential driver of improvements …

Abstract Background In many sub-Saharan African countries, including Kenya, the use of
mortality and morbidity audits in maternal and perinatal/neonatal care as an avenue for …

Problem: Ten percent of infants born will require admission to a neonatal facility.
Coordinated activity to monitor and improve the quality of care for this high risk, high cost …

Background Audit of facility-based care provided to small and sick newborns is a quality
improvement initiative that helps to identify the modifiable gaps in newborn care (BMC …

Background While child mortality is declining in Africa there has been no evidence of a
comparable reduction in neonatal mortality. The quality of inpatient neonatal care is likely a …

Clinical audits are an important intervention that enables health workers to reflect on their
practice and identify and act on modifiable gaps in the care provided. To effectively audit the …

Background Regular assessment of quality of care allows monitoring of progress towards
system goals and identifies gaps that need to be addressed to promote better outcomes. We …

Objective To assess the structural capacity for, and quality of, immediate and essential
newborn care (ENC) in health facilities in rural Ghana, and to link this with demand for …

Objectives This study was aimed at piloting a prospective individual patient database on
hospital deliveries in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and at exploring its use for developing …

Objectives High quality information, increasingly captured in clinical databases, is a useful
resource for evaluating and improving newborn care. We conducted a systematic review to …