Section 5.11 · Pillar 1 · Clinical Excellence, Patient Safety & Quality of Care
Maternal, Neonatal and Critical Care Improvement
Maternal, neonatal and critical care as national quality priorities, with emergency obstetric readiness and mortality reviews.
The issue
Maternal, neonatal, and critical care outcomes should be national quality priorities. Core areas include emergency obstetric care, postpartum hemorrhage protocols, eclampsia management, neonatal resuscitation, sepsis recognition, safe caesarean pathways, blood availability, referral systems, mortality reviews, critical care triage, and escalation.
Priority components
What good looks like in this domain, expressed as the components an institution should be able to show.
- 01Emergency obstetric care
- 02Postpartum hemorrhage protocols
- 03Eclampsia management
- 04Neonatal resuscitation
- 05Sepsis recognition
- 06Safe caesarean pathways
- 07Blood availability
- 08Referral systems
- 09Mortality reviews
- 10Critical care triage and escalation
Implementation
What this domain requires in practice: the standard, the pack, the measurement, the tools and the evidence.
Standards
No approved ASQAT standards have been published for this domain yet. The standards layer is in place so that approved statements can be released without restructuring the platform.
Measurement
Measurement specifications for this domain are being developed. Indicator definitions are published only once the numerator, denominator and data source are agreed.
Measurement frameworkResources
Implementation resources for this domain are currently in development. Approved policies, procedures, checklists and tools will be released through the resource library.
Open the libraryAwaiting approved content
Evidence in practice
No approved implementation evidence has been published for this domain yet. Case studies are published only after review of what was measured and how.