Health Care : Current Reviews

What is the impact of multi-professional emergency obstetric and neonatal care training?

3^rd Indo-Global Summit & Expo on Healthcare

October 05-07, 2015 New Delhi, India

Anne-Marie Bergh, Shisana Baloyi and Robert C Pattinson

University of Pretoria, South Africa

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Health Care: Current Reviews

Abstract:

This paper reviews evidence regarding change in healthcare-provider behavior and maternal and neonatal outcomes as a result of emergency obstetric and neonatal care (EmONC) training. A refined version of the Kirkpatrick classification for program evaluation was used to focus on change in efficiency and impact of training (levels 3 and 4). Twenty-three studies were reviewed 5 randomized controlled trials, 2 quasi-experimental studies and 16 before and after observational studies. Training programs had all been developed in high-income countries and adapted for use in low and middle income countries. Nine studies reported on behavior change and 13 on process and patient outcomes. Most showed positive results. Every maternity unit should provide EmONC teamwork training, mandatory for all healthcare providers. The challenges are scaling up such training to all institutions, sustaining regular in-service training, integrating training into institutional and health-system patient-safety initiatives and â??thinking-out-of-the-boxâ?? in evaluation research.

Biography :

Email: robert.pattinson@up.ac.za anne-marie.bergh@up.ac.za shisana.baloyi@gmail.com