Title |
Validity and reliability of criterion based clinical audit to assess obstetrical quality of care in West Africa
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Published in |
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, October 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2393-12-118 |
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Authors |
Catherine M Pirkle, Alexandre Dumont, Mamadou Traore, Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui |
Abstract |
In Mali and Senegal, over 1% of women die giving birth in hospital. At some hospitals, over a third of infants are stillborn. Many deaths are due to substandard medical practices. Criterion-based clinical audits (CBCA) are increasingly used to measure and improve obstetrical care in resource-limited settings, but their measurement properties have not been formally evaluated. In 2011, we published a systematic review of obstetrical CBCA highlighting insufficient considerations of validity and reliability. The objective of this study is to develop an obstetrical CBCA adapted to the West African context and assess its reliability and validity. This work was conducted as a sub-study within a cluster randomized trial known as QUARITE. |
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