ORGANIZATION
USAID
MOMENTUM
YEAR PUBLISHED
2024
DESCRIPTION
MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics (MOMENTUM Safe Surgery) assists country governments, institutions, organizations, and networks to build awareness of, equitable access to, and provision of high-quality maternal and obstetric care. The project supports the introduction and use of quality improvement tools, including the SCC, in its work. The project engaged the MOMENTUM Measurement, Adaptive Learning, and Knowledge Management Lab (MAKLab) in November 2023 to conduct a landscape analysis to identify and analyze new evidence-based global recommendations and guidelines to consider for integration into an updated SCC.
This document includes the findings from that analysis as well as a mapping of how guidance for vaginal, assisted, and/or surgical birth overlaps, diverges, and reconnects over the care pathway. This information will help guide MOMENTUM Safe Surgery as it considers how to ensure that new surgical obstetric care quality improvement tools align with broader efforts to strengthen obstetric care across delivery modes. These findings will also be used by the WHO during a future human-centered design process to refresh the SCC. Additionally, we expect these findings will be useful to anyone providing care along the birth care pathway. To this end, we have provided an example mapping of some national-level guidelines to the care pathway. MOMENTUM Safe Surgery will support its country teams to conduct similar mappings to help them identify gaps in national guidelines and consider supplementing them with relevant, global guidelines identified in this analysis.