With advancements in medicine and lifestyle changes that are here to stay, the demand for trained and certified health care professionals is ever increasing. In each sampled health facility, data collection began when a pregnant woman was hospitalized in obstetrics department, until she was discharged from hospital or left obstetric department. An adapted individual survey form was used to collected information on sociodemographic characteristics, pregnancy complications and terminations, interventions and process indicators, and maternal and perinatal outcomes. This individual survey form was modified according to the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health. 22 After several rounds of expert seminars, some of the elements that were difficult to collect during obstetric hospitalization in China were removed from the original form. Appendix file showed the main information collected in the individual survey form used in NMNMSS. Data were collected by obstetricians or nurses responsible for patient care mainly through the … Read the rest
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