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Experiences with perinatal death reviews in South Africa—the Perinatal Problem Identification Programme: scaling up from programme to province to country
Author(s) -
Rhoda NR,
Greenfield D,
Muller M,
Prinsloo R,
Pattinson RC,
Kauchali S,
Kerber K
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/1471-0528.12997
Subject(s) - audit , identification (biology) , perinatal mortality , economic growth , medicine , geography , environmental health , socioeconomics , business , pregnancy , sociology , fetus , botany , genetics , accounting , economics , biology
The Perinatal Problem Identification Programme ( PPIP ) was designed and developed in South Africa as a facility audit tool for perinatal deaths. It has been used by only a few hospitals since the late 1990s, but since the country's commitment to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4—the use of PPIP is now mandatory for all facilities delivering pregnant mothers and caring for newborns. To date 588 sites, representing 73% of the deliveries captured by the District Health Information System for South Africa, provide data to the national database at the Medical Research Council Unit for Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies in Pretoria.