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Factors influencing the identification of maternal death cases: |
• Daily identification of cases |
• Consulting many sources of data (hospital registers) |
• Computerizing hospital registers |
Factors influencing the data collection: |
• High level of professional qualifications or experience of the data collector* |
• Incentives for the data collector |
• Quality of the collector's training |
• Interviewing the family members briefly before the exposure of the body |
Factors influencing the audit meetings: |
• Involved head of department, acting as a moderator during the meeting* |
• When possible, information from the community |
• Short delay between the death and the audit meeting |
• Multidisciplinary meetings |
Factors influencing the use of the findings: |
• Feedback to the managers and all the staff of the maternity unit |
• Involvement of the hospital officials |
• Involvement of the community representatives |