Table 1.
Quality standard items list
| Input Quality items | |
| Infrastructure | Essential drugs |
| Functional incinerator on the time of visit. | Dexamethasone/betamethasone IV |
| Functional placenta pit on the time of visit. | Methyldopa |
| Electric power supplies any type. | Hydralazine |
| Water availability in the compound either in the form of pipe water or hand pump. | Nifedipine |
| Equipment/supply | Ampicillin (IV) |
| Newborn corner in the delivery room. | Gentamycin (IV) |
| Baby Weighing scales for Newborns with 50 precision. | Metronidazole (IV) |
| Complete delivery sets (Kidney dish, forceps, gauze swabs, Scissors, pads, cord tie/clips) at least three per facility. | Tetracycline (TTC) eye ointment |
| Towel for baby drying and wrapping | Vitamin K |
| Bulb suction | MgSO4 |
| Ambu bag & face masks (neonatal- size 0) | Calcium gluconate |
| Ambu bag & face masks (neonatal- size 1) | Oxytocin |
| Oxygen concentrator/Oxygen cylinder | Normal saline/Ringers lactate |
| Radiant warmer | |
| Running water at the delivery room. | |
| Soap at the delivery room. | |
| Process Quality items | |
| Clinical care for MNH | Complication management |
| Proportion of deliveries which danger signs assessed on admission (BP measured) | Proportion of women with pre-eclampsia who are treated with IV/IM MgS04 |
| Proportion of deliveries which partograph started when cervical dilatation at least 4 cm | Proportion of pregnant women with pPRoM who are not in labor and are given oral erythromycin |
| Proportion of mothers who received 10 IU IV/IM Oxytocin | Proportion of Postpartum Hemorrhage cases managed per protocol |
| Proportion of newborn who had assessment (does the baby need special care and monitoring) – APGAR score | Proportion of asphyxiated neonates who were resuscitated (with bag & mask) and survived |
| Proportion of deliveries (newborns) who received immediate skin to skin and initiate breastfeeding within the 1st hour (measured by mother/baby bonding) | Proportion of Sick Young infants treated for sepsis/VSD |
| Proportion of deliveries (newborns) who received Vit K1 | Proportion of low birth weight or premature newborns for whom KMC was initiated after delivery |
| Proportion of deliveries (newborns) who received Tetracycline Eye Ointment | |
| Output Quality items | |
| Proportion of women that received antenatal care four or more times during the current pregnancy | Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel (midwife, nurse, health officer or doctor) |
| Proportion of pregnant women attending antenatal care clinics tested for syphilis | Proportion of births that received post-natal care at least once during the early post-partum period (within 48 h after delivery) |