Midwifery Academy · MINC-MW-008
Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response
Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response was selected because it addresses an important midwifery responsibility with direct implications for patient safety, continuity and quality of care. The module progresses from foundational concepts through assessment, midwifery action, communication, evaluation and an integrated practice-improvement exercise.
40 CPD credit hours · 40 one-hour units · 2400 minutes · Coming soon
MINC is still writing this module. Its units are listed below so you can see what is coming; none of them can be started or bought yet.
Module aim
Maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths recur when cases are not identified, reviewed without blame, translated into feasible actions and followed until corrective measures are complete.
What you will be able to do
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to identify and notify maternal and perinatal deaths.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to contribute to confidential blame-free review.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to analyse causes and modifiable factors.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to develop feasible response actions.
- By the end of the module, the learner will be able to monitor completion and use findings for improvement.
Units
- Purpose and principles of MPDSR (60 min)
- From surveillance to prevention action (60 min)
- Definitions of maternal death (60 min)
- Direct and indirect maternal deaths (60 min)
- Late maternal deaths (60 min)
- Stillbirth definitions (60 min)
- Neonatal death definitions (60 min)
- Case identification in facilities (60 min)
- Community case identification (60 min)
- Timely notification (60 min)
- Completeness of death reporting (60 min)
- Preserving records and evidence (60 min)
- Confidentiality and data protection (60 min)
- Blame-free learning culture (60 min)
- Composition and roles of review committees (60 min)
- Preparing for a maternal-death review (60 min)
- Preparing for a perinatal-death review (60 min)
- Constructing the clinical timeline (60 min)
- Cause-of-death concepts (60 min)
- Avoidable and modifiable factors (60 min)
- Three-delays framework (60 min)
- Quality-of-care analysis (60 min)
- Community and social contributors (60 min)
- Respectful involvement of families (60 min)
- Conducting the review meeting (60 min)
- Facilitation and psychological safety (60 min)
- Developing specific recommendations (60 min)
- Assigning responsibility and timelines (60 min)
- Prioritising feasible corrective actions (60 min)
- Communicating findings appropriately (60 min)
- Implementing response actions (60 min)
- Monitoring response completion (60 min)
- Closing the audit loop (60 min)
- Aggregating and analysing trends (60 min)
- Using data for service improvement (60 min)
- Near-miss review (60 min)
- Stillbirth and neonatal-death review (60 min)
- Governance and accountability (60 min)
- MPDSR indicators and reporting (60 min)
- Integrated review and response action plan (60 min)
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