Short Communication : Mother, but without Forgetting Her Child: Time To Nationwide the Good Practices of Maternal and Newborn Deaths Audit for Better Healthcare Quality

Abstract

The objective of this study was to aware people about the use of maternal and neonatal clinical audit as integrated strategy to fight against Maternal and neonatal mortality. A short literature review has been conducted using the words audit, clinical audit, maternal audit and neonatal audit » to produce lessons learned about clinical audit in the African context. Several strategies are implementing to improve the quality of care but not in nationwide setting about maternal death audits. And few studies focused on newborn death audits. Both maternal and newborn deaths audits are suitable for achieving the Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH), as a nationwide initiative going toward achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).