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Selection of severe morbidity cases for audit was based on the presence of gross substandard care.
It is obvious that it is not possible in a busy labour ward like MNH to prepare case notes of all cases for audit, but a good way is to give the task to one of the junior doctors to prepare case stories for assessment e.g. 2-3 cases a week that can be presented and assessed at the weekly meeting.
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Autopsy was performed in 38% and pathological examination of the placenta in 77% of the term cases registered for audit.
Finally, we excluded an additional 61 perinatal deaths with missing values or case note (29 macerated stillbirths, 22 fresh stillbirths, 10 neonatal deaths) hence leaving 133 cases for the audit (corresponding to 68.5% of perinatal deaths weighing 1.5 kg or 43.6% of total perinatal deaths during the study period); Figure 1).
In Italy, this is the case for 'colposcopy audit' and 'colposcopy QA'.
The use of a single type of outcome measure was only present in 3 (5%) cases for the re-audit, of which one case used HoNOSCA, one an SDQ and one a Conners'.
The implications for the case of auditing costs is shown in the Appendix.
In total, 33 neighbourhoods were selected for observation, covering a large part of the total study population (39% of parents and 38% of the children that filled in a questionnaire were living in one of the observed neighbourhoods, neighbourhoods were selected for audit only in case their residents were also included in the health survey).
The analysis is restricted to 67 cases, for which case summary and audit minutes could be retrieved.
The lower tail of this distribution identifies the least reliable cases, which become candidates for auditing and manual QA.The upper tail identifies the most reliable cases, which become candidates for updating the standard reference data set used to design and tune the production classifier.
The study relied on self-completion questionnaires and case-note audit for much of its data, involving a significant response burden, but numbers of questionnaires with missing data were low at all stages of follow-up.
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