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IMproving Perinatal Mortality Review and Outcomes Via Education IMPROVE

Project Status In Progress
Funding Organisation Queensland Health
Organisation Lead University of Sydney
Lead Investigator Adrienne Gordon
Program Area Implementing Best Practice In Care After Stillbirth And In Subsequent Pregnancies
Topic Implementing Optimal Parent-centred Care Following Perinatal Death

The IMPROVE workshops and eLearning module are designed to address the educational needs of health professionals involved in maternity and newborn care in managing perinatal death. The content in this education program is based on the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand's Perinatal Mortality Guidelines for care after stillbirth and Neonatal death. The IMPROVE education program covers appropriate practices around principles of bereavement care, communicating with parents about autopsy, clinical examination, placental and post-mortem examination, investigation, classification, and audit of stillbirth.

Take the IMPROVE eLearning modules here or find out more about the face-to-face workshops here.