Publications by authors named "F Uxa"
Article Synopsis
- The study highlights the need for effective tools to assess and improve the quality of maternal and neonatal care, noting a lack of information on how these quality assessments are used in practice.
- Reports on the implementation of the WHO Quality Assessment and Improvement tool reveal improvements in maternal and neonatal care over an average of 1.2 years across 27 facilities in various regions, but gaps in quality still remain.
- Factors influencing changes in care quality include both internal and external elements, with the capacity of facility managers and leaders being critical in facilitating or hindering these improvements.
Impact of a quality improvement intervention on neonatal mortality in a regional hospital in Burkina Faso.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
December 2022
Article Synopsis
- * A study evaluated the NEST intervention at Saint Camille Hospital Ouagadougou by analyzing pre-intervention (2015) and post-intervention (2018) data, focusing on improvements in care quality through training, infrastructure, and collaboration.
- * Results showed a slight decrease in overall mortality rate from 44.9% to 42.2% after the intervention, but adjustments indicated no significant impact on overall mortality; however, there was an increased proportion of multiple births among admissions.
Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of the World Health Organization (WHO) Essential Newborn Care (ENC) course in improving knowledge and skills of nurse midwives in low-risk delivery clinics in a developing country.
Methods: The investigators identified the content specifications of the training material, developed both written and performance evaluations and administered the evaluations both before and after training clinical nurse midwives in Zambia.
Findings: Based on these evaluations, both the knowledge and skills of the nurse midwives improved significantly following the course (from a mean of 65% correct pretraining to 84% correct post-training and from 65% to 77% correct on the performance and written evaluations, respectively).
There is still an alarming gap in neonatal healthcare and outcome between Western and Eastern European countries and the former USSR countries in particular. Most of the causes of neonatal mortality and morbidity can be prevented or managed by simple cost-effective interventions aimed at improving quality of healthcare, health system organisation and family and community participation. Training of health professionals and health policy-makers in the field of essential neonatal care and breastfeeding promotion is one of the cornerstones of the World Health Organization (WHO) initiatives Making Pregnancy Safer (MPS) and Promoting Effective Perinatal Care (PEPC) - the latter specifically tailored to the European Region - aimed at ensuring safe pregnancy and childbirth through ensuring the availability, access and use of quality skilled care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGiant omphaloceles with a small abdominal defect: prenatal diagnosis and neonatal management.
Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol
December 2005
A giant omphalocele is a liver-containing protrusion through an abdominal defect wider than 5 cm in diameter. The giant form with a small abdominal wall defect is a rare condition which, to our knowledge, has not been described previously. We describe three cases with the typical features of elongated vascular liver pedicle and angiomatosis of the hepatic portal system.
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