Perinatal Care in the CR in 1997 and Perspective forthe Near Future - II. Regional Analysis

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Authors: Z. Štembera; P. Velebil
Authors‘ workplace: Ústav pro péči o matku a dítě, Praha - Podolí, ředitel Ing. V. Wollmuth
Published in: Ceska Gynekol 1999; (3): 168-172
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Overview

In interregional comparisons of different indicators of quality of perinatal care fromthe aspect of the importance of revealed differences, it is due to errors of small numbers (numberof births per year) better to use instead of frequency analysis the developmental trend of theseindicators in the course of several years. From a thus conducted analysis ensues that along withthe continual decline of the general perinatal mortality in the majority of regions a markedinterregional difference persists in the frequency of very low birth weight neonates as well as inthe quality devoted to these neonates. The advantage of regional analyses, as compared withnationwide analyses, is the possibility to assess interrelations between some indicators, e.g. be-tween general early mortality, the frequency of very low birthweight infants and their specificearly neonatal mortality which reflects the quality of care of these neonates in the perinatologicalcentre of the catchment area. In the region one of the important tasks of the centre are annualinterinstitutional comparisons of quality of care, using selected indicators.

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