Introduction: Maternal and child care is one of the priority health issues that have been identified as requiring urgent attention in South Africa. Despite various efforts, South Africa has not seen improvements in maternal and perinatal outcomes. It is therefore essential that services and practices in hospitals rendering maternity care be reviewed and audited, so that current services can be improved and new services developed if necessary. In Schweizer-Reneke Hospital the clinical outcomes and clinical practices at the maternity unit have never been clearly described. The aim of the study was to describe the clinical outcomes and the associated clinical practices in the maternity unit of the hospital from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009. Methodology: The study setting was the maternity unit of Schweizer-Reneke District Hospital, a level 1 district hospital in a rural district of the North West Province. It comprised of a retrospective review of data from the District Health Information System and of the delivery records, specifically the partogram from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009. The study also examined records of Perinatal Problem Identification Programme and Mortality and Morbidity Review meetings. The study population included all the patients who delivered at the maternity unit during the study period. The measurement tools for data collection were data capture sheets on excel spreadsheets. The source of the data was the maternity register, maternity case records, Perinatal Problem Identification Programme records, District Health Information System and Unit Administration files (for records of meetings). The researcher personally captured the data. Results: Out of 699 deliveries conducted at the hospital 80.1% were normal deliveries, 16.3% caesarean sections and 3.6% vacuum-assisted deliveries. The record review revealed errors in the number of caesarean sections and vacuum-assisted deliveries on the DHIS. The perinatal mortality rate was calculated to be 56 per 1000 live births during the study period. Again the record review identified more perinatal deaths (41) than what was reported on the DHIS. No maternal deaths were recorded during the study period. A total of 295 records were analysed for completeness of the partogram. Out of the 295 partograms analysed none of them had data completed according to standard. The analysis of the completion of the partogram show that there is a significant association between recording of certain aspects of the partogram (risk factors, parity, age, fetal heart, contractions, cervical dilatation, problems and management plan) and mode of delivery whereas with other aspects there is no significant association. The aspects of the partogram that were completed according to standard by the perinatal outcome were poorly recorded, ranging from 0% to 54%. The association between mode of delivery and perinatal outcome was found to be statistically significant (p value 0.000). All of the fresh stillbirths and 90% of macerated stillbirths were born by normal vertex delivery. For the period under study one MMR meeting was conducted. Conclusion: The study found that there were poor clinical practices and outcomes in the maternity unit of Schweizer-Reneke Hospital. There are signs of poor information management as indicated by the discrepancies between data on hospital records and the DHIS. The reasons for this could not be established. Perinatal Problem Identification Problem and Mortality and Morbidity Review meetings were not conducted regularly and therefore could not be used to improve clinical practices and outcomes. Recommendations: Major steps need to be taken to improve clinical governance within the maternity unit of Schweizer-Reneke Hospital. Strategies to recruit and retain Professional Nurses need to be developed. The high percentage of macerated stillbirths needs to be investigated at district level and antenatal care needs to be improved. Studies focusing on the direct effect of inadequate recording on mortality and morbidity and the causes or reasons for inadequate completion of the partogram are necessary.

Esta dissertação é resultado de uma pesquisa-intervenção cuja produção de dados ocorreu com o Grupo Condutor Regional da Rede Cegonha (GCR) no DRS III de Araraquara - SP, parte do Projeto de Pesquisa para o Sistema Único de Saúde (PPSUS): O processo de implantação da rede de atenção à saúde materno infantil no DRS III de Araraquara: a atenção básica como ordenadora da atenção em rede. Nosso objetivo foi compreender este coletivo como espaço de Educação Permanente em Saúde (EPS) para a institucionalização dessa Rede, e também caracterizar a EPS no território de abrangência deste DRS, compreender suas fragilidades-potencialidades e também os processos de EPS produzidos no interior do GCR para a implementação da Rede Cegonha (RC), diante de desafios como a redução da morbimortalidade materno infantil e o atendimento integral e humanizado a mulheres e crianças. Esta pesquisa qualitativa compreendeu a análise de documentos e a pesquisa-intervenção, utilizando método cartográfico, e a produção dos dados ocorreu no ano de 2014 com os integrantes do GCR e outros pesquisadores PPSUS. As análises tiveram como referenciais o Processo de Trabalho em Saúde e conceitos do movimento institucionalista, das correntes da Análise Institucional e da Esquizoanálise. Esta pesquisa de cunho cartográfico explorou o contexto sócio-histórico da EPS e da RC no DRS III e paisagens que compõem o mapa do aprendizado no que chamamos Rede-rizoma, entremeadas por análises de implicações e aprendizados na experiência, tanto de construção da pesquisa como da RC. Nos planos do rizoma houve momentos de aprendizado significativo, ecos nos municípios, interferências da pesquisa-intervenção, dentre outros componentes de tessitura da rede que envolveram seus atores, seus pontos de conexão, de tensão, de apoio. Nesse emaranhado quente e frio, interessou-nos explorar as singularidades do encontro e os movimentos de forças instituintes e do instituído com o compromisso de entender a EPS como ferramenta de trabalho para a institucionalização da RC. Percebemos a existência de microprocessos de institucionalização disparados no cotidiano do GCR, caracteristicamente paralisantes e mobilizadores, como a importância da participação social, ainda tímida, as tensões com a imobilidade municipal, as fragilidades-potencialidades dos recursos humanos e financeiros, e também resultados que refletem em alargamento e participação de novos atores, cooperação intermunicipal, fortalecimento dos Grupos Condutores Municipais da rede cegonha e uma gestão estadual disposta a deflagrar processos de formação participativos. Trata-se de movimentos que se revelaram em implicações de múltiplas bifurcações e em processos de EPS que se fazem de forma mutante, conformando a rede-rizoma / This dissertation resulted from a intervention-research which data production took place with the Regional Conductor Group of the Stork Network (GCR) in the DRS III of Araraquara - SP, part of the research project for the National Health System (PPSUS): The maternal and child health care network deployment process in the DRS III Araraquara: primary health care ordering the network care. Our purpose was to understand this collective as a Permanent Education in Health (EPS) space for the institutionalization of this Network, and also characterize the EPS in the DRS territory, understand their fragilities-potentialities and also the EPS processes produced inside the GCR for the implementation of RC, in face of challenges such as reducing child and maternal mortality and the comprehensive and humanized assistance to women and children. This qualitative research included the analysis of documents and the intervention-research using cartographic method which data production occurred in 2014, with members of the GCR and other PPSUS researchers. The analysis had as referential, the Work Process in Health and concepts of the Institutionalist Movement, from Institutional Analysis and Schizoanalysis currents. This cartographic research explored the EPS and RC socio-historical contexts in the DRS III and some landscapes that make up the learning map in what we call Net-rhizome, permeated by implication analysis and learning experience, both from research and RC construction. In the rhizome plans there were moments of meaningful learning, echoes in the municipalities, research-intervention interferences, among other weaving network components involving its actors, its connection, tension and support points. In this hot and cold tangle, we were interested in explore the uniqueness of the meeting and the movement of instituting forces and the instituted with the commitment to understanding the EPS as a tool for the RC institutionalization. We realized the existence of institutionalization microprocesses triggered in the GCR characteristically paralyzing and mobilizers, as the importance of social participation, even timid, tensions with municipal immobility, the fragilities-potentialities, human and financial resources, as well as results that reflect in enlargement and new actors participation, inter-municipal cooperation, strengthening of Municipal Conductor Groups and a state management willing to trigger participatory educational processes. Movements that have proven in multiple bifurcation implications and EPS processes in mutant forms conforming the net-rhizome

Esta dissertação é resultado de uma pesquisa-intervenção cuja produção de dados ocorreu com o Grupo Condutor Regional da Rede Cegonha (GCR) no DRS III de Araraquara - SP, parte do Projeto de Pesquisa para o Sistema Único de Saúde (PPSUS): O processo de implantação da rede de atenção à saúde materno infantil no DRS III de Araraquara: a atenção básica como ordenadora da atenção em rede. Nosso objetivo foi compreender este coletivo como espaço de Educação Permanente em Saúde (EPS) para a institucionalização dessa Rede, e também caracterizar a EPS no território de abrangência deste DRS, compreender suas fragilidades-potencialidades e também os processos de EPS produzidos no interior do GCR para a implementação da Rede Cegonha (RC), diante de desafios como a redução da morbimortalidade materno infantil e o atendimento integral e humanizado a mulheres e crianças. Esta pesquisa qualitativa compreendeu a análise de documentos e a pesquisa-intervenção, utilizando método cartográfico, e a produção dos dados ocorreu no ano de 2014 com os integrantes do GCR e outros pesquisadores PPSUS. As análises tiveram como referenciais o Processo de Trabalho em Saúde e conceitos do movimento institucionalista, das correntes da Análise Institucional e da Esquizoanálise. Esta pesquisa de cunho cartográfico explorou o contexto sócio-histórico da EPS e da RC no DRS III e paisagens que compõem o mapa do aprendizado no que chamamos Rede-rizoma, entremeadas por análises de implicações e aprendizados na experiência, tanto de construção da pesquisa como da RC. Nos planos do rizoma houve momentos de aprendizado significativo, ecos nos municípios, interferências da pesquisa-intervenção, dentre outros componentes de tessitura da rede que envolveram seus atores, seus pontos de conexão, de tensão, de apoio. Nesse emaranhado quente e frio, interessou-nos explorar as singularidades do encontro e os movimentos de forças instituintes e do instituído com o compromisso de entender a EPS como ferramenta de trabalho para a institucionalização da RC. Percebemos a existência de microprocessos de institucionalização disparados no cotidiano do GCR, caracteristicamente paralisantes e mobilizadores, como a importância da participação social, ainda tímida, as tensões com a imobilidade municipal, as fragilidades-potencialidades dos recursos humanos e financeiros, e também resultados que refletem em alargamento e participação de novos atores, cooperação intermunicipal, fortalecimento dos Grupos Condutores Municipais da rede cegonha e uma gestão estadual disposta a deflagrar processos de formação participativos. Trata-se de movimentos que se revelaram em implicações de múltiplas bifurcações e em processos de EPS que se fazem de forma mutante, conformando a rede-rizoma / This dissertation resulted from a intervention-research which data production took place with the Regional Conductor Group of the Stork Network (GCR) in the DRS III of Araraquara - SP, part of the research project for the National Health System (PPSUS): The maternal and child health care network deployment process in the DRS III Araraquara: primary health care ordering the network care. Our purpose was to understand this collective as a Permanent Education in Health (EPS) space for the institutionalization of this Network, and also characterize the EPS in the DRS territory, understand their fragilities-potentialities and also the EPS processes produced inside the GCR for the implementation of RC, in face of challenges such as reducing child and maternal mortality and the comprehensive and humanized assistance to women and children. This qualitative research included the analysis of documents and the intervention-research using cartographic method which data production occurred in 2014, with members of the GCR and other PPSUS researchers. The analysis had as referential, the Work Process in Health and concepts of the Institutionalist Movement, from Institutional Analysis and Schizoanalysis currents. This cartographic research explored the EPS and RC socio-historical contexts in the DRS III and some landscapes that make up the learning map in what we call Net-rhizome, permeated by implication analysis and learning experience, both from research and RC construction. In the rhizome plans there were moments of meaningful learning, echoes in the municipalities, research-intervention interferences, among other weaving network components involving its actors, its connection, tension and support points. In this hot and cold tangle, we were interested in explore the uniqueness of the meeting and the movement of instituting forces and the instituted with the commitment to understanding the EPS as a tool for the RC institutionalization. We realized the existence of institutionalization microprocesses triggered in the GCR characteristically paralyzing and mobilizers, as the importance of social participation, even timid, tensions with municipal immobility, the fragilities-potentialities, human and financial resources, as well as results that reflect in enlargement and new actors participation, inter-municipal cooperation, strengthening of Municipal Conductor Groups and a state management willing to trigger participatory educational processes. Movements that have proven in multiple bifurcation implications and EPS processes in mutant forms conforming the net-rhizome