Kwik Skwiz 29- 4 Key components of a successful perinatal audit process

➢➢➢➢➢Kwik-Skwiz#294 Key Components of aSuccessful Perinatal Audit ProcessThe Issue 2. Preparatory review meetingAll available evidence points to the importance of aneffective audit process in improving the quality of The quality of this preparatory review is critical to thematernal health services and lowering the Maternal level of accountability and to the value of the subsequentMortality and Perinatal Mortality Rates. The audit process Perinatal Review Meeting (PRM). There is insufficient timecan be located at the district or the sub-district level, at a PRM to carry out review of the outcomes of all theand usually takes place in the District Hospital. What are pregnancies in one month. Therefore preparatory reviewthe key steps to implementing an effective audit process? meetings need to be carried out and a summary preparedThis publication aims to answer this question by looking for presentation to the PRM. This is the responsibilityat the following four crucial activities which comprise together of the midwife collecting the data and the doctoran effective perinatal audit process: and midwife in charge of the maternity services in thesub-district. This meeting is held a few days before themonthly PRM.1. Review of each perinatal andmaternal death within 24At the preparatory review meeting thehours of the deathfollowing is done:The perinatal statistics for the month are reviewedPurpose of the review:and interpreted. Included in this review ...