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The ASOS-2 Trial Maternal Mortality Sub-study

Study Description
Brief Summary:
This sub-study is a mixed-methods analysis of a prospective case-series of maternal deaths within the African Surgical OutcomeS-2 trial cohort. The aims of the sub-study are i) to describe the contextual factors that contribute towards maternal deaths after caesarean delivery in Africa using a conceptual framework of "transport-treatment-training" and ii) to classify the maternal deaths in the ASOS-2 trial according to the WHO ICD-10 maternal mortality reporting standard. Data will be extracted from the ASOS-2 trial database. A sub-study case report form (CRF) and semi-structured telephonic interviews will be used to gather additional information from clinicians who were experienced a maternal death during the trial.

Condition or disease Intervention/treatment
Maternal Mortality Cesarean Section Africa Procedure: Cesarean section

Detailed Description:

This sub-study is a mixed-methods analysis of a prospective case-series of maternal deaths within the African Surgical OutcomeS-2 trial cohort. The aims of the sub-study are i) to describe the contextual factors that contribute towards maternal deaths after caesarean delivery in Africa using a conceptual framework of "transport-treatment-training" and ii) to classify the maternal deaths in the ASOS-2 trial according to the WHO ICD-10 maternal mortality reporting standard. Data will be extracted from the ASOS-2 trial database. When a maternal death is captured on the trial database, the data manager will flag the event. The hospital that registered the death will be contacted and invited to take part in the sub-study. A sub-study case report form (CRF) and semi-structured telephonic interviews will be used to gather additional information from clinicians who were experienced a maternal death during the trial.

This study uses 2 a priori frameworks for describing maternal deaths:

i) The "transport-treatment-training" framework developed by Dr Andrew Shennan (personal communication). This framework suggests that the important determinants (modifiable contextual factors) of maternal mortality can be classified as being related to transport, treatment and training factors.

  • Transport refers to the manner in which the patient accesses existing care. This includes decision to seek help, modes of transportation to the hospital, and inter-facility transportation. We consider the healthcare access network in this category.
  • Treatment refers to the manner in which the case was managed at the healthcare facility. It includes delays in diagnosis and decision making as well as delays between decision making and physical intervention (e.g. time from decision for caesarean delivery to time of delivery of the infant). Treatment also includes appropriateness of treatment decisions and the availability of resources needed to provide recommended treatment.
  • Training refers to the availability of skilled health care providers and the need for training / upskilling of existing health care providers.

ii) The WHO application of ICD-10 codes to deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (ICD MM) classification. Within this framework, deaths are described as having a final direct cause, an underlying cause that leads to the final cause, and contributory causes that did not directly cause death, but worsened physiological status or accelerated the underlying event.

The underlying cause of death is defined as the disease or condition that initiated the morbid chain of events leading to death or the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced a fatal injury. Underlying causes will be specified in as much detail as available. The underlying cause will be classified into one of 8 categories:

  1. Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy
  2. Obstetric haemorrhage
  3. Pregnancy-related infection
  4. Other obstetric complications
  5. Unanticipated complications of management (iatrogenic)
  6. Non-obstetric complications (non-obstetric disease, e.g. cardiac disease, malaria)
  7. Unknown / Undetermined
  8. Coincidental external causes (e.g. interpersonal violence)
Study Design
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Study Type : Observational
Estimated Enrollment : 100 participants
Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Prospective
Official Title: The African Surgical OutcomeS-2 (ASOS-2) Trial Maternal Mortality Sub-study. A Mixed-methods Analysis of a Prospective Case-series Describing Factors Contributing to Maternal Mortality Associated With Caesarean Delivery in Africa
Actual Study Start Date : May 6, 2019
Estimated Primary Completion Date : July 31, 2020
Estimated Study Completion Date : July 31, 2020
Arms and Interventions
Group/Cohort Intervention/treatment
African Surgical OutcomeS-2 Trial
The ASOS-2 Trial is a cluster randomised trial purposively recruiting hospitals across Africa. To be eligible for inclusion a hospital must perform at least 20 cases of adult in-patient surgery with anaesthesia per week, have local ethics approval for the trial, have local hospital management approval and have established a local hospital study team. The trial excludes hospitals with lower surgical volume. The trial aims to include all consecutive adult in-patient surgical cases at participating hospitals (both elective and emergency surgery). Patients under the age of 18 and patients who have already been recruited into the trial are excluded from recruitment. Follow-up is in-hospital, censored at 30 days.
Procedure: Cesarean section
Abdominal, operative delivery of the fetus

Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures :
  1. Transport: Mode of transport [ Time Frame: On the day of hospital admission ]
    Nominal: walking, private transport, ambulance, public transport

  2. Transport: Distance [ Time Frame: On the day of hospital admission ]
    Continuous: distance in kilometers from patient's home to hospital

  3. Transport: Time [ Time Frame: On the day of hospital admission ]
    Continuous: time in hours from patient's home to hospital

  4. Transport: Delay in seeking healthcare [ Time Frame: On the day of hospital admission ]
    Binary: Obstetrician opinion whether there was a clinically important delay in seeking care

  5. Transport: Delay in transport to healthcare [ Time Frame: On the day of hospital admission ]
    Binary: Obstetrician opinion whether there was a clinically important delay in transport

  6. Transport: Inter-facility delay [ Time Frame: At time of death (death recorded in-hospital, censored at 30 days) ]
    Binary: Did the patient die while waiting for inter-facility transfer?

  7. Treatment: Referral to high level of care [ Time Frame: In-hospital censored at 30 days ]
    Binary: Whether or not referral to higher level of care took place

  8. Treatment: Prophylactic uterotonic use [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Oxytocin, Ergometrine, Misoprostil, Carbetocin, None

  9. Treatment: Therapeutic uterotonic use [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Oxytocin, Ergometrine, Misoprostil, Carbetocin, None

  10. Treatment: Surgical safety checklist [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Whether or not a surgical safety checklist was used

  11. Treatment: Type of anaesthetic [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Regional, general with endotracheal intubation, general without endotracheal intubation.

  12. Treatment: Airway aspiration [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Whether or not airway aspiration occurred

  13. Treatment: Desaturation [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Whether or not desaturation below 90% occurred during management of the airway

  14. Treatment: Spinal hypotension [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Whether or not spinal hypotension occured; systolic BP <= 90mmHg

  15. Treatment: Interventions to arrest bleeding [ Time Frame: In hospital, censored at 30 days ]
    Nominal: Which techniques were used? over-sowing, uterine compression suture, uterine artery ligation, uterine tourniquet, intrauterine balloon, hysterectomy, uterine artery embolisation

  16. Treatment: Blood products [ Time Frame: In hospital, censored at 30 days ]
    Nominal: Which products were given? Red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma, freeze dried plasma, cryoprecipitate, platelets, whole blood.

  17. Treatment: Availability of medications [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Oxygen, Propofol, Thiopentone, Etomidate, Ketamine, Suxamethonium, Rocuronium, Nitrous Oxide, Halothane, Isoflurane, Sevoflurane, Oxytocin, Ergometrine, Syntometrine, Misoprostil, Prostaglandin F2alpha, Carbetocin, Phenylephrine, Ephedrine, Adrenalin, Noradrenalin, Morphine, Fentanyl, Pethidine, Lignocaine, Bupivacaine, Tranexamic Acid

  18. Treatment: Availability of blood products [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Red blood cells, Plasma, Platelets, Cryoprecipitate

  19. Treatment: Availability of resuscitation equipment [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Airway suction, endotracheal intubation equipment, mechanical ventilator, supraglottic airway devices, defibrillator,

  20. Treatment: Availability of monitoring equipment [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Which monitoring equipment are available in the recovery area and the postoperative ward? O2 saturation, blood pressure, heart rate monitor, thermometer

  21. Treatment: Recovery area [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Is there a dedicated area where the patient is monitored during recovery from anaesthesia for caesarean section?

  22. Treatment: Provider-patient ratio [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Interval: Nurse-to-patient ratio in postoperative ward (during the day, during the night)

  23. Treatment: Delay in diagnosis [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Obstetrician opinion whether a clinical important delay in diagnosis occurred

  24. Treatment: Delay between diagnosis and caesarean section [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Obstetrician opinion whether a clinical important delay between diagnosis and caesarean section occurred

  25. Treatment: Access to hospital resources [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Obstetrician opinion whether delayed access or lack of hospital resources contributed to the death: water supply, electricity, medications, telephone, anaesthetic equipment, surgical equipment, monitoring equipment, operating theatre, nursing or assistant, on-call senior obstetric doctor, on-call senior anaesthetic doctor, advice from referral center.

  26. Training: Level of training [ Time Frame: At time of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Provider level of training at caesarean seciton (for anaesthesia and surgery): Specialist, specialist trainee, non-specialist doctor, non-doctor


Secondary Outcome Measures :
  1. Cause of death [ Time Frame: Maternal death is recorded in-hospital, censored at 30 days. ]
    WHO ICD-10 maternal mortality reporting standard


Eligibility Criteria
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Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older   (Adult, Older Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   Female
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Sampling Method:   Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
African mothers who die during or after caesarean delivery. The primary study is a cluster randomised trial which samples hospitals across Africa purposively.
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • adult patients
  • aged 18 years and over,
  • admitted to participating hospitals
  • undergoing elective and non-elective caesarean delivery
  • who die following their operation before leaving hospital and within 30 days after the operation.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • prior participation in ASOS-2
  • caesarean delivery at a hospital other than the study hospital (left censored)
  • patients who are transferred to another hospital before death (right censored)
Contacts and Locations

Locations
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South Africa
Groote Schuur Hospital
Observatory, Western Cape, South Africa, 7925
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Cape Town
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Investigators
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Principal Investigator: Professor Bruce M Biccard University of Cape Town
Tracking Information
First Submitted Date June 25, 2019
First Posted Date July 23, 2019
Last Update Posted Date January 29, 2020
Actual Study Start Date May 6, 2019
Estimated Primary Completion Date July 31, 2020   (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Current Primary Outcome Measures
 (submitted: July 22, 2019)
  • Transport: Mode of transport [ Time Frame: On the day of hospital admission ]
    Nominal: walking, private transport, ambulance, public transport
  • Transport: Distance [ Time Frame: On the day of hospital admission ]
    Continuous: distance in kilometers from patient's home to hospital
  • Transport: Time [ Time Frame: On the day of hospital admission ]
    Continuous: time in hours from patient's home to hospital
  • Transport: Delay in seeking healthcare [ Time Frame: On the day of hospital admission ]
    Binary: Obstetrician opinion whether there was a clinically important delay in seeking care
  • Transport: Delay in transport to healthcare [ Time Frame: On the day of hospital admission ]
    Binary: Obstetrician opinion whether there was a clinically important delay in transport
  • Transport: Inter-facility delay [ Time Frame: At time of death (death recorded in-hospital, censored at 30 days) ]
    Binary: Did the patient die while waiting for inter-facility transfer?
  • Treatment: Referral to high level of care [ Time Frame: In-hospital censored at 30 days ]
    Binary: Whether or not referral to higher level of care took place
  • Treatment: Prophylactic uterotonic use [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Oxytocin, Ergometrine, Misoprostil, Carbetocin, None
  • Treatment: Therapeutic uterotonic use [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Oxytocin, Ergometrine, Misoprostil, Carbetocin, None
  • Treatment: Surgical safety checklist [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Whether or not a surgical safety checklist was used
  • Treatment: Type of anaesthetic [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Regional, general with endotracheal intubation, general without endotracheal intubation.
  • Treatment: Airway aspiration [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Whether or not airway aspiration occurred
  • Treatment: Desaturation [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Whether or not desaturation below 90% occurred during management of the airway
  • Treatment: Spinal hypotension [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section, at time of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Whether or not spinal hypotension occured; systolic BP <= 90mmHg
  • Treatment: Interventions to arrest bleeding [ Time Frame: In hospital, censored at 30 days ]
    Nominal: Which techniques were used? over-sowing, uterine compression suture, uterine artery ligation, uterine tourniquet, intrauterine balloon, hysterectomy, uterine artery embolisation
  • Treatment: Blood products [ Time Frame: In hospital, censored at 30 days ]
    Nominal: Which products were given? Red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma, freeze dried plasma, cryoprecipitate, platelets, whole blood.
  • Treatment: Availability of medications [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Oxygen, Propofol, Thiopentone, Etomidate, Ketamine, Suxamethonium, Rocuronium, Nitrous Oxide, Halothane, Isoflurane, Sevoflurane, Oxytocin, Ergometrine, Syntometrine, Misoprostil, Prostaglandin F2alpha, Carbetocin, Phenylephrine, Ephedrine, Adrenalin, Noradrenalin, Morphine, Fentanyl, Pethidine, Lignocaine, Bupivacaine, Tranexamic Acid
  • Treatment: Availability of blood products [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Red blood cells, Plasma, Platelets, Cryoprecipitate
  • Treatment: Availability of resuscitation equipment [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Airway suction, endotracheal intubation equipment, mechanical ventilator, supraglottic airway devices, defibrillator,
  • Treatment: Availability of monitoring equipment [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Which monitoring equipment are available in the recovery area and the postoperative ward? O2 saturation, blood pressure, heart rate monitor, thermometer
  • Treatment: Recovery area [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Is there a dedicated area where the patient is monitored during recovery from anaesthesia for caesarean section?
  • Treatment: Provider-patient ratio [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Interval: Nurse-to-patient ratio in postoperative ward (during the day, during the night)
  • Treatment: Delay in diagnosis [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Obstetrician opinion whether a clinical important delay in diagnosis occurred
  • Treatment: Delay between diagnosis and caesarean section [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Binary: Obstetrician opinion whether a clinical important delay between diagnosis and caesarean section occurred
  • Treatment: Access to hospital resources [ Time Frame: On day of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Obstetrician opinion whether delayed access or lack of hospital resources contributed to the death: water supply, electricity, medications, telephone, anaesthetic equipment, surgical equipment, monitoring equipment, operating theatre, nursing or assistant, on-call senior obstetric doctor, on-call senior anaesthetic doctor, advice from referral center.
  • Training: Level of training [ Time Frame: At time of caesarean section ]
    Nominal: Provider level of training at caesarean seciton (for anaesthesia and surgery): Specialist, specialist trainee, non-specialist doctor, non-doctor
Original Primary Outcome Measures Same as current
Change History
Current Secondary Outcome Measures
 (submitted: July 22, 2019)
Cause of death [ Time Frame: Maternal death is recorded in-hospital, censored at 30 days. ]
WHO ICD-10 maternal mortality reporting standard
Original Secondary Outcome Measures Same as current
Current Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures Not Provided
Original Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures Not Provided
 
Descriptive Information
Brief Title The ASOS-2 Trial Maternal Mortality Sub-study
Official Title The African Surgical OutcomeS-2 (ASOS-2) Trial Maternal Mortality Sub-study. A Mixed-methods Analysis of a Prospective Case-series Describing Factors Contributing to Maternal Mortality Associated With Caesarean Delivery in Africa
Brief Summary This sub-study is a mixed-methods analysis of a prospective case-series of maternal deaths within the African Surgical OutcomeS-2 trial cohort. The aims of the sub-study are i) to describe the contextual factors that contribute towards maternal deaths after caesarean delivery in Africa using a conceptual framework of "transport-treatment-training" and ii) to classify the maternal deaths in the ASOS-2 trial according to the WHO ICD-10 maternal mortality reporting standard. Data will be extracted from the ASOS-2 trial database. A sub-study case report form (CRF) and semi-structured telephonic interviews will be used to gather additional information from clinicians who were experienced a maternal death during the trial.
Detailed Description

This sub-study is a mixed-methods analysis of a prospective case-series of maternal deaths within the African Surgical OutcomeS-2 trial cohort. The aims of the sub-study are i) to describe the contextual factors that contribute towards maternal deaths after caesarean delivery in Africa using a conceptual framework of "transport-treatment-training" and ii) to classify the maternal deaths in the ASOS-2 trial according to the WHO ICD-10 maternal mortality reporting standard. Data will be extracted from the ASOS-2 trial database. When a maternal death is captured on the trial database, the data manager will flag the event. The hospital that registered the death will be contacted and invited to take part in the sub-study. A sub-study case report form (CRF) and semi-structured telephonic interviews will be used to gather additional information from clinicians who were experienced a maternal death during the trial.

This study uses 2 a priori frameworks for describing maternal deaths:

i) The "transport-treatment-training" framework developed by Dr Andrew Shennan (personal communication). This framework suggests that the important determinants (modifiable contextual factors) of maternal mortality can be classified as being related to transport, treatment and training factors.

  • Transport refers to the manner in which the patient accesses existing care. This includes decision to seek help, modes of transportation to the hospital, and inter-facility transportation. We consider the healthcare access network in this category.
  • Treatment refers to the manner in which the case was managed at the healthcare facility. It includes delays in diagnosis and decision making as well as delays between decision making and physical intervention (e.g. time from decision for caesarean delivery to time of delivery of the infant). Treatment also includes appropriateness of treatment decisions and the availability of resources needed to provide recommended treatment.
  • Training refers to the availability of skilled health care providers and the need for training / upskilling of existing health care providers.

ii) The WHO application of ICD-10 codes to deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (ICD MM) classification. Within this framework, deaths are described as having a final direct cause, an underlying cause that leads to the final cause, and contributory causes that did not directly cause death, but worsened physiological status or accelerated the underlying event.

The underlying cause of death is defined as the disease or condition that initiated the morbid chain of events leading to death or the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced a fatal injury. Underlying causes will be specified in as much detail as available. The underlying cause will be classified into one of 8 categories:

  1. Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy
  2. Obstetric haemorrhage
  3. Pregnancy-related infection
  4. Other obstetric complications
  5. Unanticipated complications of management (iatrogenic)
  6. Non-obstetric complications (non-obstetric disease, e.g. cardiac disease, malaria)
  7. Unknown / Undetermined
  8. Coincidental external causes (e.g. interpersonal violence)
Study Type Observational
Study Design Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Prospective
Target Follow-Up Duration Not Provided
Biospecimen Not Provided
Sampling Method Non-Probability Sample
Study Population African mothers who die during or after caesarean delivery. The primary study is a cluster randomised trial which samples hospitals across Africa purposively.
Condition
  • Maternal Mortality
  • Cesarean Section
  • Africa
Intervention Procedure: Cesarean section
Abdominal, operative delivery of the fetus
Study Groups/Cohorts African Surgical OutcomeS-2 Trial
The ASOS-2 Trial is a cluster randomised trial purposively recruiting hospitals across Africa. To be eligible for inclusion a hospital must perform at least 20 cases of adult in-patient surgery with anaesthesia per week, have local ethics approval for the trial, have local hospital management approval and have established a local hospital study team. The trial excludes hospitals with lower surgical volume. The trial aims to include all consecutive adult in-patient surgical cases at participating hospitals (both elective and emergency surgery). Patients under the age of 18 and patients who have already been recruited into the trial are excluded from recruitment. Follow-up is in-hospital, censored at 30 days.
Intervention: Procedure: Cesarean section
Publications * Not Provided

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
 
Recruitment Information
Recruitment Status Enrolling by invitation
Estimated Enrollment
 (submitted: July 22, 2019)
100
Original Estimated Enrollment Same as current
Estimated Study Completion Date July 31, 2020
Estimated Primary Completion Date July 31, 2020   (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • adult patients
  • aged 18 years and over,
  • admitted to participating hospitals
  • undergoing elective and non-elective caesarean delivery
  • who die following their operation before leaving hospital and within 30 days after the operation.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • prior participation in ASOS-2
  • caesarean delivery at a hospital other than the study hospital (left censored)
  • patients who are transferred to another hospital before death (right censored)
Sex/Gender
Sexes Eligible for Study: Female
Ages 18 Years and older   (Adult, Older Adult)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers No
Contacts Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
Listed Location Countries South Africa
Removed Location Countries  
 
Administrative Information
NCT Number NCT04029207
Other Study ID Numbers ASOS-2 Maternal Mortality
Has Data Monitoring Committee No
U.S. FDA-regulated Product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
IPD Sharing Statement
Plan to Share IPD: Undecided
Plan Description: The Principle Investigator will receive requests to share individual participant data and will decide on a case by case basis.
Responsible Party Bruce Biccard, University of Cape Town
Study Sponsor University of Cape Town
Collaborators Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Professor Bruce M Biccard University of Cape Town
PRS Account University of Cape Town
Verification Date January 2020