Publications by authors named "Fabio 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.
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.
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