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Table 2 Key clinical outcomes

From: Implementation and evaluation of a quality improvement initiative to reduce late gestation stillbirths in Australia: Safer Baby Bundle study protocol

Clinical Outcomes

Measure

Primary outcome

Stillbirth at 28 weeks’ or more gestation in singleton pregnancies without lethal fetal congenital anomalies

Secondary outcomes

Fetal/Neonatal

Stillbirth; 20 weeks’ or more gestation; 28 weeks’ or more gestation; 37 or more weeks’ gestation; associated with substandard care factors (undetected FGR, poor DFM reporting or management); cause specific (PSANZ classificationa)

Neonatal death; early (within 7 days of birth) or late (within 7-28 days of birth)

Neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (mild, moderate, or severe grading- ANZNN criteriab)

Small for gestational age; birthweight < 10th centile; birthweight < 3rd centile

Neonatal seizures

Preterm birth; early (birth before 32 weeks) or late (birth before 37 weeks)

Early term birth (birth 37-38 weeks)

Admission to nursery; special care and/or intensive care; length of stay

Need for respiratory support (defined using ANZNN criteriab)

Early and late onset neonatal infection (defined using ANZNN criteriab)

Maternal

Induction of labour

Caesarean section; elective; emergency (caesarean section birth after labour)

Admission to intensive care

Unplanned returned to theatre

  1. aPerinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) classification [30], bAustralian and New Zealand Neonatal Network (ANZNN) criteria [31]