Electronic Partograph: A Way of Improving Partograph Use During Labour Monitoring Process in Selected District Hospitals in Bangladesh

Launched by INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH, BANGLADESH · Apr 25, 2018

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Study design, site and duration:

A prospective, follow-up crossover study design was used. Two secondary level referral hospitals in Jessore and Kushtia districts were selected as study sites. The selected facilities were similar in terms of infrastructure, human resources, and service delivery scenarios to typical district hospitals and were thus representative of public hospitals in Bangladesh. However, there were a few differences in the number of c-section and stillbirth rates in between two study hospitals. The crossover study design adopted under this study was designed to minimize t...

Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • women with spontaneous labour in the first stage of labour
• • cervical dilatation in between 4-7 centimeters
• • singleton pregnancy
• • gestation of at least 37 completed weeks
• • cephalic presentations
• • no additional complications
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • women with ante partum hemorrhage
• • breech presentation,
• • multiple pregnancy,
• • premature labour (before 37 weeks)
• • Eclampsia,
• • elective caesarean section
• • induced labour