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Table 5 Work Package 3: Reach and Fidelity, factors to be investigated

From: The Tommy’s Clinical Decision Tool, a device for reducing the clinical impact of placental dysfunction and preterm birth: protocol for a mixed-methods early implementation evaluation study

Factors to be investigated

All data to be reported as overall and by maternity unit—then by:

  1. Age (< 16, 16–19, 20–24, 25–29, 30–34, 35–39, 40–44, 45 + years)

  2. Parity (nulliparous/multiparous)

  3. Ethnic Group

  4. Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

Registration

  Number verified for maternity care

  % of women who verified their email address but did not proceed beyond the NHS Digital “use of data” page

  % of women agreed to contact from researchers

  % of women who had the data they had entered corrected by the HCP

Risk assessment (of verified women)

  % of women where preterm birth risk assessment carried out

  % of women where placental function risk assessment carried out

  % of women who were not eligible for risk assessment (pre-existing diabetes, pre-existing hypertension, multiple pregnancy)

  % of women where changes in fetal movements assessment was carried out

  % of women where recurrent changes in fetal movements assessment was carried out

  % of women where threatened preterm labour assessment was carried out

  % of women where timing of birth assessment was carried out

  % of women assessed to be (low/moderate/high) for preterm birth

  % of women assessed to be (low/moderate/high) for placental dysfunction

Care pathway

  % of women received aspirin when indicated

  % of women referred for extra ultrasound scans when indicated

  % of women referred to preterm service when indicated

  % of women offered induction of labour when indicated

Information hub

  % of women who accessed at least one Information Hub page

  % of women who accessed each individual page

Pregnancy outcomes

  % of women having live birth

  % of women having miscarriage

  % of women having neonatal death (at time of pregnancy outcome survey completed)

  % of women having stillbirth

  % of women having termination of pregnancy (surgical/ medical)

  % women transferring care

  % of women having birth < 34wks

  % of women having birth < 37wks

  % of induction of labour

  % emergency caesarean section

  % elective caesarean section

  % of women having vaginal birth

  % of women having assisted birth (ventouse/ forceps)

  % of women discharged while baby remained in Neonatal Unit

  % of women verified who had miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm birth or neonatal death