Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi
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The aim of the study was to investigate health workers' perception of the quality of, and factors which impact provision of quality emergency obstetric care. ⋯ The findings of this study reveal that health care workers rate the quality of emergency obstetric care they provide as poor. They were able to identify structure and process factors which contribute to this overall poor quality emergency obstetric care provided. These were attributed to health care system problems and client problems. Only through addressing the contributing factors will true improvement of management of obstetric emergencies occur.