Intrapartum perinatal mortality, the deaths that occur during the period around birth, is a major problem in developing countries accounting for more than one million stillbirths and a similar number of neonatal deaths worldwide each year [1,2]. A number of authors have emphasized that the time encompassing labor and the 24 hours after birth is the most dangerous period for both the mother and ...

BACKGROUND The perinatal mortality of 70 deaths per 1,000 total births in Uganda is unacceptably high. Perinatal death audits are important for improvement of perinatal care and reduction of perinatal morality. We integrated perinatal death audits in routine care, and describe its effect on perinatal mortality rate at Nsambya Hospital. METHODS This was a retrospective descriptive study conduc...

Very few population-based studies of perinatal mortality in developing countries have examined the role of intrapartum risk factors. In the present study, the proportion of perinatal deaths that are attributable to complications during childbirth in Matlab, Bangladesh, was assessed using community-based data from a home-based programme led by professional midwives between 1987 and 1993. Complic...

The death rate among infants in the last weeks of pregnancy and the first days of postnatal life has been decreasing steadily as the standards of antenatal and postnatal care have improved and as the general standard of health of the population has become better. There are still, however, regional differences in the risk of perinatal death, and in the Principality of Wales the risk of losing a ...

Perinatal mortality rate is a sensitive indicator of quality of care provided to women in pregnancy, at and after child birth and to the newborns in the first week of life. Regular perinatal audit would help in identifying all the factors that play a role in causing perinatal deaths and thus help in appropriate interventions to reduce avoidable perinatal deaths. A retrospective study of perinat...

PROBLEM Suboptimal care contributes to perinatal mortality rates. Quality-of-care audits can be used to identify and change suboptimal care, but it is not known if such audits have reduced perinatal mortality in South Africa. APPROACH We investigated perinatal mortality trends in health facilities that had completed at least five years of quality-of-care audits. In a subset of facilities that...

BACKGROUND: Perinatal mortality remains a significant aspect of under-5 mortality, accounting for over 20% of underfive mortality in Nigeria. OBJECTIVE: To determine the pattern of perinatal mortality in the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin. METHODS: This was a prospective study conducted at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. Data on socio-biologic, antenatal and peripart...

JOURNAL Perinatal mortality surveys "No phenomenon or stage in a sequence has only one cause; all antecedent stages are successive causes and as science has no reason to infer a first cause, the sequence of causes can be carried back to the limit of knowledge." These words from Karl Pearson's The Grammar of Science' are quoted in the report of what may well have been the first survey of individ...

Trends in perinatal mortality were studied in the city of Pelotas, Southern Brazil, using three population-based cohort studies carried out in 1982, 1993 and 2004. The objective of the present study was to analyze trends and differences in perinatal mortality during the 1982-2004 period. All hospital deliveries and perinatal deaths were monitored through daily visits to maternity wards. Cause o...

INTRODUCTION Perinatal mortality rate is a sensitive indicator of quality of care provided to women in pregnancy, at and after child birth and to the newborns in the first week of life. Regular perinatal audit would help in identifying all the factors that play a role in causing perinatal deaths and thus help in appropriate interventions to reduce avoidable perinatal deaths. AIMS AND OBJECTIV...