Evaluating the effect of care around labor and delivery practices on early neonatal mortality in the Global Network's Maternal and Newborn Health Registry

Archana B Patel, Elizabeth M Simmons, Sowmya R Rao, Janet Moore, Tracy L Nolen, Robert L Goldenberg, Shivaprasad S Goudar, Manjunath S Somannavar, Fabian Esamai, Paul Nyongesa, Ana L Garces, Elwyn Chomba, Musaku Mwenechanya, Sarah Saleem, Farnaz Naqvi, Melissa Bauserman, Sherri Bucher, Nancy F Krebs, Richard J Derman, Waldemar A Carlo, Marion Elizabeth M Koso-ThomasMcClure, Patricia L Hibberd, Archana B Patel, Elizabeth M Simmons, Sowmya R Rao, Janet Moore, Tracy L Nolen, Robert L Goldenberg, Shivaprasad S Goudar, Manjunath S Somannavar, Fabian Esamai, Paul Nyongesa, Ana L Garces, Elwyn Chomba, Musaku Mwenechanya, Sarah Saleem, Farnaz Naqvi, Melissa Bauserman, Sherri Bucher, Nancy F Krebs, Richard J Derman, Waldemar A Carlo, Marion Elizabeth M Koso-ThomasMcClure, Patricia L Hibberd

Abstract

Background: Neonatal deaths in first 28-days of life represent 47% of all deaths under the age of five years globally and are a focus of the United Nation's (UN's) Sustainable Development Goals. Pregnant women are delivering in facilities but that does not indicate quality of care during delivery and the postpartum period. The World Health Organization's Essential Newborn Care (ENC) package reduces neonatal mortality, but lacks a simple and valid composite index that measures its effectiveness.

Methods: Data on 5 intra-partum and 3 post-partum practices (indicators) recommended as part of ENC, routinely collected in NICHD's Global Network's (GN) Maternal Newborn Health Registry (MNHR) between 2010 and 2013, were included. We evaluated if all 8 practices (Care around Delivery - CAD), combined as an index was associated with reduced early neonatal mortality rates (days 0-6 of life).

Results: A total of 150,848 live births were included in the analysis. The individual indicators varied across sites. All components were present in 19.9% births (range 0.4 to 31% across sites). Present indicators (8 components) were associated with reduced early neonatal mortality [adjusted RR (95% CI):0.81 (0.77, 0.85); p < 0.0001]. Despite an overall association between CAD and early neonatal mortality (RR < 1.0 for all early mortality): delivery by skilled birth attendant; presence of fetal heart and delayed bathing were associated with increased early neonatal mortality.

Conclusions: Present indicators (8 practices) of CAD were associated with a 19% reduction in the risk of neonatal death in the diverse health facilities where delivery occurred within the GN MNHR. These indicators could be monitored to identify facilities that need to improve compliance with ENC practices to reduce preventable neonatal deaths. Three of the 8 indicators were associated with increased neonatal mortality, due to baby being sick at birth. Although promising, this composite index needs refinement before use to monitor facility-based quality of care in association with early neonatal mortality. Trial registration The identifier of the Maternal Newborn Health Registry at ClinicalTrials.gov is NCT01073475.

Keywords: Composite index; Early neonatal mortality; Early neonatal period; Essential newborn care; Global network; Intrapartum care; Labor and delivery care; Low income countries; Lower middle-income countries; Neonatal mortality; Newborn care; Postpartum care; Quality of care.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Proportion of mother/baby dyads receiving and early neonatal mortality for the composite index types of care around delivery by site

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