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Table 6 Percentage of fulfilled standards for management of foetal distress at baseline and re-audit

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

Standards

Percentage of fulfilled criteria in management

Baseline audit (n = 248)

Re-audit (n = 251)

p-value

M

%

M

%

 

Fulfilled all (9) criteria for management

0

0.8

0

8.8

<0.001

Fulfilled criteria for immediate care

 Intravenous rehydration

4

95.6

0

95.2

0.85

 Change of maternal position

0

37.9

0

86.5

<0.001

 Review by a senior

0

35.9

0

44.2

0.057

Fulfilled pre-operative care

 Urethral catheterization

0

95.6

0

98.8

0.053

 Blood grouping and cross matching

0

97.2

0

98.8

0.22

 Administration of pre-operative prophylactic antibiotic

0

95.6

0

95.6

0.97

 Informed consent

0

96.4

0

98.8

0.87

 Presence of pre-operative check list

0

98.0

0

98.8

0.50

 Decision to delivery interval

0

10.1

0

22.3

<0.001

aFulfilled timeline of CS intervention

 Decision to delivery time (≤60 min)

0

9.3

7

20.5

0.001

 Decision to theatre time (≤30 min)

0

23.3

0

37.9

0.001

 Theatre to delivery time (≤30 min)

0

15.0

0

25.4

0.006

  1. Student’s t-test for test of difference between baseline and re-audit (M = Missing)
  2. adenotes cases of women delivered by CS only