Table 4 Identified facilitators to the implementation of maternal death reviews

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