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Stillbirth surveillance and review in rural districts in Bangladesh

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, June 2018
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Title
Stillbirth surveillance and review in rural districts in Bangladesh
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12884-018-1866-2
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Abdul Halim, Mamuda Aminu, Juan Emmanuel Dewez, Animesh Biswas, A. K. M. Fazlur Rahman, Nynke van den Broek

Abstract

An estimated 2.6 million stillbirths occur every year, with the majority occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Understanding the cause of and factors associated with stillbirth is important to help inform the design and implementation of interventions aimed at reducing preventable stillbirths. Population-based surveillance with identification of all stillbirths that occurred either at home or in a health facility was introduced in four districts in Bangladesh. Verbal autopsy was conducted for every fifth stillbirth using a structured questionnaire. A hierarchical model was used to assign likely cause of stillbirth. Six thousand three hundred thirty-three stillbirths were identified for which 1327 verbal autopsies were conducted. 63.9% were intrapartum stillbirths. The population-based stillbirth rate obtained was 20.4 per 1000 births; 53.9% of all stillbirths occurred at home. 69.6% of mothers had accessed health care in the period leading up to the stillbirth. 48.1% had received care from a highly trained healthcare provider. The three most frequent causes of stillbirth were maternal hypertension or eclampsia (15.2%), antepartum haemorrhage (13.7%) and maternal infections (8.9%). Up to 11.3% of intrapartum stillbirths were caused by hypoxia. However, it was not possible to identify a cause of death with reasonable certainty using information obtained via verbal autopsy in 51.9% of stillbirths. Introducing surveillance for stillbirths at community level is possible. However, verbal autopsy yields limited data, and the questionnaire used for this needs to be revised and/or combined with information obtained through case note review. Most women accessed and received care from a qualified healthcare provider. To reduce the number of preventable stillbirths, the quality of antenatal and intrapartum care needs to be improved.

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Unknown 96 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 13%
Student > Bachelor 11 11%
Student > Master 10 10%
Student > Postgraduate 7 7%
Researcher 6 6%
Other 14 15%
Unknown 36 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Social Sciences 3 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Other 10 10%
Unknown 41 43%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 June 2018.
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#12,806,738
of 23,090,520 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#2,281
of 4,251 outputs
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#152,270
of 328,592 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#100
of 154 outputs
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