European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

Background: India accounts for a fifth of annual global maternal deaths. The referral system is an essential component of any health systems which is particularly important in pregnancy and childbirth for providing access to essential obstetric care. The 3-tier health care delivery system was conceived in such a manner that the patients in need of a higher level of expertise and care could be referred accordingly from primary to secondary directly to tertiary level centre. Hence the present study was aimed to study the maternal and perinatal outcomes among referred obstetric cases.
Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out in department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at tertiary care centre during the study period from Jan 2019 to Jan 2020. Study was conducted on all referred obstetric cases to the hospital. Thus such 1067 cases were studied. Detailed history of the patients who had been referred from different centres was taken, taking note of the referring centre and reason for referral. All collected data were filled in a predefined proforma. All data was collected and compiled in Microsoft excel. Appropriate test was applied for analysis under SPSS software version 21 and P value <0.05 was taken as significant.