Clinical audit reveals improved use of the partogragh among midwives in Zambia
A recent Clinical audit conducted at University Teaching Hospital for Women and New- Born and Mansa General Hospital in Zambia has revealed that the number of Midwives able to use the partograph is improving, but that some midwives still do not pay attention to it. A partograph, which is an essential tool for decision making, is a graphical record of the observations made of a women in labour. The audit was conducted by Lugina Africa Midwives Research Network (LAMRN) Zambia which is part of a regional LAMRN grouping aimed at improving and increasing midwifery research and evidence-based midwifery practice in the Eastern, Central and Southern African region. A midwife examining a pregnant women The clinical audit conducted at the two hospitals from 2015, to determine the level of knowledge and practices that skilled attendants had on utilization of the partograph, also revealed that utilization of the partograph is a challeng...