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Table 3 Summary of recommended interventions to improve diagnosis of foetal destress following baseline audit feedback

From: Criteria-based audit to improve quality of care of foetal distress: standardising obstetric care at a national referral hospital in a low resource setting, Tanzania

1. Posting the criteria of standard diagnosis in the labour ward and operating theatre

2. Regular reminder of the use of the diagnostic criteria during grand rounds and routine work

3. Confirm the diagnosis of foetal distress using the posted criteria before taking the patient to or receiving the patient in the operating theatre

4. Provide Fetal Dopplers and train doctors and midwives how to use a Fetal Doppler and interpret foetal heart rate and rhythm

5. Doctors at the referring points should use the diagnostic criteria to ascertain the diagnosis before making referrals at MNH

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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

ISSN: 1471-2393

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