QUALMAT - Quality of prenatal and maternal care: Bridging the know-do gap

 

The main objective is to improve maternal and newborn health by raising the level of motivation of health care workers to provide high quality maternal and newborn care.

 

 

The project was designed as an intervention research project. In each of the three participating African countries, one intervention district and one control district were selected. The intervention consisted of the introduction of (1) performance based incentives to increase health workers motivation and (2) a computer-assisted clinical decision support system which will help providers to comply with established standards of care. In both districts the quality of maternal care was measured before, during and after the intervention, using a variety of methods being: review of patient records and maternal and child registers at health facility and district level, client-exit interviews, observation studies and health facility survey. ICRH was responsible for the quality of antenatal and childbirth assessment.

 

ICRH is in charge of the development and the implementation of adequate tools and systems for the monitoring and evaluation of the quality of antenatal and maternal care at the study sites.