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We have taken every care to ensure that drug dosages and related medical advice in this book are accurate. However, drug and disinfectant dosages can change and are updated often, so always double-check dosages and procedures against a reliable, up-to-date formulary and the given drug’s documentation before administering it.

Saving Mothers and Babies: Assessing and reducing mortality rates in your hospital

First published in 2008 by Bettercare. Updated September 2008. This version produced on 26 February 2025.

Text © Perinatal Education Trust 2008

ISBN (print edition): 978-1-920218-29-4
ISBN (international paperback edition): 978-1-717898-56-2 ISBN (reflowable edition): 978-1-920218-96-6

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      1. Home
      1. How to use our books
      2. Buy printed books
      3. About Bettercare
      4. FAQs
      5. Contact us
      1. Acknowledgements
      2. Introduction
        1. About Bettercare
        2. Why decentralised learning?
        3. Free Bettercare Online Learning Platform
        4. Learning programmes
        5. Format of the courses
        6. Contributors
        7. Updating the course material
        8. Contact information
        9. Registration
      3. 1 Introduction to maternal and perinatal mortality
        1. Objectives
        2. Mortality
        3. Audit
        4. Birth register
        5. Low birth weight
        6. Case studies
      4. 2 Maternal mortality
        1. Objectives
        2. Mortality ratio
        3. Causes of maternal death
        4. Confidential enquiry
        5. Avoidable factors
        6. Case studies
        7. PPIP classification of maternal deaths
      5. 3 Perinatal mortality
        1. Objectives
        2. Perinatal mortality
        3. Stillbirths
        4. Neonatal mortality
        5. The ratio of stillbirths to early neonatal deaths
        6. Perinatal care index
        7. Case studies
      6. 4 Maternal and perinatal mortality audits
        1. Objectives
        2. Audit
        3. Perinatal mortality meetings
        4. Perinatal mortality reports
        5. Perinatal problem identification programme (PPIP)
        6. Case studies
        7. PPIP classifications of perinatal deaths
      7. 5 Finding solutions to maternal and perinatal mortality
        1. Objectives
        2. Finding solutions
        3. Avoidable factors associated with maternal deaths
        4. Preventing maternal deaths
        5. Avoidable factors associated with perinatal deaths
        6. Preventing perinatal mortality
        7. Case studies
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