Immpact Toolkit: a guide and tools for maternal mortality programme assessment
Module 4
Immpact Toolkit: Module 4
Version 2
Tracing adverse and favourable events in pregnancy care (TRACE)
TRACE helps to explain why maternal deaths or 'near misses' (severe and life threatening obstetric complications) occur, tracking events in the progress of pregnancy and birth from the home to the hospital to the community. The approach can be used to generate recommendations for improvements in clinical practice and for programme intervention. TRACE is presented here as a means to evaluate clinical practice in low resource settings.
The version of TRACE described here is a generic tool that can be applied in many different settings with local adaptation, but it is based on country-specific experience which we provide as examples (see case studies in section 4(3).7).