Organization: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Registration deadline: 17 Mar 2017
Starting date: 20 Mar 2017
Ending date: 31 Mar 2017
http://www.lstmed.ac.uk/study/courses/quality-improvements-in-maternal-newborn-health
3 good reasons to study
- 289,000 women die annually during pregnancy, childbirth, or within six weeks of delivery, with developing regions accounting for 99% of these deaths.
- Quality Improvement Skills are vital for leaders to move off from the status quo and be a real asset to their employment setting and beyond.
- You will consider the bigger picture of maternal and newborn health, and where you can best make your contribution.
Programme Introduction
This course aims to provide students with knowledge and critical understanding of the concepts of quality of care in maternal and newborn health. Students will learn the importance of improving the quality of MNH care and services, how to assess quality, reflect critically on their own area of practice and role in quality improvement and appreciate how research and audit differ and how they are related. Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate that they have the skills, knowledge and understanding to introduce and use quality improvement methods for MNH services, notably:
- setting of standards
- carrying out maternal death reviews
- perinatal death reviews
- criteria-based clinical audits.
- setting of standards
Explain the importance of quality improvement in MNH
Identify specific developments within their own area of practice and consider how the interventions were evaluated.
Course Outline
- Introduction to quality of care in MNH services
- Multi dimensional aspects of quality
- How to improve quality of MNH care?
- Approaches: QI committee, champions, behaviour change
- Quality of care methods in MNH; maternal death audit, perinatal death audit, setting standards, criterion based audit
- Introduction to tools using in QI: client exit interview, FGD, IDI, observation, patient complaints and incidents
- Maternal death reviews
- Classification of maternal death
- Perinatal death reviews
- Developing tools for maternal and perinatal death reviews
- Criteria based audit
- Development of performance standards for Emergency Obstetric care and Newborn Care
- Indicators for monitoring and evaluating progress in Quality of Care
How to register:
Please visit our course page, click the APPLY button and follow the onscreen instructions
http://www.lstmed.ac.uk/study/courses/quality-improvements-in-maternal-newborn-health