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Journal Article
Observational Study
Assessment of clinical decision-making among healthcare professionals performing caesarean deliveries in Burkina Faso.
Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare : Official Journal of the Swedish Association of Midwives 2018 June
OBJECTIVE: To identify the factors associated with quality decision-making of healthcare professionals in managing complicated labour and delivery in referral hospitals of Burkina Faso.
METHODS: We carried out a six-month observational cross-sectional study among 123 healthcare professionals performing caesareans in 22 hospitals. Clinical decision-making was evaluated using hypothetical patient vignettes framed around four main complications during labour and delivery and developed using guidelines validated by an expert committee. The results were used to generate a quality decision-making score. A multivariate linear regression analysis was used to identify the factors independently associated with the score.
RESULTS: Out of 100, the mean ± SD quality decision-making score was 63.84 ± 7.21 for midwives, 65.58 ± 6.90 for general practitioners (GPs), and 71.94 ± 6.70 for gynaecologist-obstetricians (p < 0.001). Quality decision-making score was higher among professionals with more than seven years' work experience and those with the highest level of professional qualification. Working in a service where partograms are regularly reviewed by peers dramatically increased the skills of professionals.
CONCLUSION: The simple dissemination of written clinical guidelines is not sufficient to maintain high-quality decision-making among healthcare professionals in Burkina Faso. Midwives may have some better scores than GPs if duly retrained and supervised. Increasing in-service training and supervision of both junior staff and lower-qualified healthcare professionals might help to improve obstetric practices in referral hospitals of Burkina Faso.
METHODS: We carried out a six-month observational cross-sectional study among 123 healthcare professionals performing caesareans in 22 hospitals. Clinical decision-making was evaluated using hypothetical patient vignettes framed around four main complications during labour and delivery and developed using guidelines validated by an expert committee. The results were used to generate a quality decision-making score. A multivariate linear regression analysis was used to identify the factors independently associated with the score.
RESULTS: Out of 100, the mean ± SD quality decision-making score was 63.84 ± 7.21 for midwives, 65.58 ± 6.90 for general practitioners (GPs), and 71.94 ± 6.70 for gynaecologist-obstetricians (p < 0.001). Quality decision-making score was higher among professionals with more than seven years' work experience and those with the highest level of professional qualification. Working in a service where partograms are regularly reviewed by peers dramatically increased the skills of professionals.
CONCLUSION: The simple dissemination of written clinical guidelines is not sufficient to maintain high-quality decision-making among healthcare professionals in Burkina Faso. Midwives may have some better scores than GPs if duly retrained and supervised. Increasing in-service training and supervision of both junior staff and lower-qualified healthcare professionals might help to improve obstetric practices in referral hospitals of Burkina Faso.
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