Impact of secondary and tertiary neonatal interventions on neonatal mortality in a low- resource limited setting hospital in Uganda: a retrospective study.

Objective: To assess the impact of secondary and tertiary level neonatal interventions on neonatal mortality over a period of 11 years.

Design: Interrupted time series analysis.

Setting: Nsambya Hospital, Uganda.

Prospective study to explore changes in quality of care and perinatal outcomes after implementation of perinatal death audit in Uganda.

Objective: To assess the effects of perinatal death (PND) audit on perinatal outcomes in a tertiary hospital in Kampala.

Design: Interrupted time series (ITS) analysis.

Setting: Nsambya Hospital, Uganda.

Facility readiness in low and middle-income countries to address care of high risk/ small and sick newborns.

Background: The successful promotion of facility births in low and middle-income countries has not always resulted in improved neonatal outcome. We evaluated key signal functions pertinent to Level II neonatal care to determine facility readiness to care for high risk/ small and sick newborns.

Method: Facility readiness for care of high risk/ small and sick babies was determined through self-evaluation using a pre-designed checklist to determine key signal functions pertinent to Level II neonatal care in selected referral hospitals in Uganda (10), Indonesia (4) and India (2) with focus on the Sub-Saharan country with greater challenges.