Table 3 Existing service readiness tools including small and sick newborn care content scoped
| Â | Tool name | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
Global | Service Provision Assessment (SPA) | United States Agency for International Development -Demographic and Health Surveys | To provide a comprehensive overview of a country's health service delivery |
Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) | World Health Organization (WHO) | To assess on a regular basis service delivery (availability and readiness) for all health programmes | |
Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) | United Nations Population Fund / Averting Maternal Death and Disability (UNFPA / AMDD) | To assess readiness for obstetric signal functions | |
Every Preemie-SCALE Facility Assessment for Inpatient Care of Small and Sick Newborn | Every Preemie- SCALE | To provide information on the current situation for newborns and young infants in a country | |
Kenya | Clinical Service Review and Supervision Tool—Quality of Neonatal Hospital Care | Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) | An audit of neonatal care services provided by clinical training centres was undertaken to identify areas requiring improvement as part of wider efforts to improve newborn survival in Kenya |
Maternity Structure Tool | Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) | To determine the quality of comprehensive emergency obstetric care, through the lens of clinical documentation of process indicators of selected emergency obstetric conditions that mostly cause maternal mortality on admission to the labour ward | |
Neonatal Structure Tool | Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) | Part of the Clinical Information Network Project to improve small and sick newborn care | |
Health Facility Capacity Assessment Form | Center for Public Health and Development (CPHD) | Part of the Center for Public Health and Development Project to assess facility capacity | |
Malawi | Neonatal Care Indicators Checklist | CPAP quality improvement program (QIP) | Part of the Ministry of Health and Rice360 CPAP scale-up project |
Ward Assessment Checklist | CPAP quality improvement program (QIP) | ||
Tanzania | Star Rating Assessment: Hospital, Health Center and Dispensary | Ministry of Health | Ministry of Health, facility rating system |
Nigeria | Appraising Neonatal Care in Tertiary Centers | Lagos University Teaching Hospital | To be used for a Nigerian Neonatal registry documenting patient and institutional level clinical information essential to understanding both beneficial practices that can be shared, and drivers of poor outcomes that can be improved upon in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Nigeria |