Extracts below. Full text: https://www.who.int/news/item/06-05-2022-beyond-numbers--database-brings...
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Beyond numbers: database brings to light quality of care for women and their babies at a national scale
New paper on database and programme in Nigeria shows enormous potential for helping to improve quality of care for women and babies.
6 May 2022
Strong health systems, backed by an efficient health information system – informed by quality data – helps to ensure quality, respectful, safe and dignified health care for girls and women, as advocated by WHO guidelines.
In recognition of this, WHO, HRP and Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria established the Nigeria Maternal and Perinatal Database for Quality, Equity and Dignity (MPD-4-QED) programme...
A new research paper, published recently in eClinicalMedicine, demonstrates the incredible scale, depth and detail of the database. The results record the quality of care for 76,563 women and their babies admitted for birth or due to complications shortly after birth to tertiary hospitals in Nigeria...
More than showing mere numbers, the database and the research also brought to light important depth and detail in its findings. One such finding was the association between the risk of death for women and their babies when they lacked a companion of their choice during childbirth, and when the labour was not monitored with appropriate tool...
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Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Global Coordinator HIFA, www.hifa.org neil@hifa.org
Working in official relations with WHO
