نتایج جستجو برای: antenatal care

تعداد نتایج: 628433  

Journal: :International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care 2002
David P Urassa Anders Carlstedt Lennarth Nystrom Siriel N Massawe Gunilla Lindmark

OBJECTIVE To assess the quality of antenatal care with respect to anaemia, a common health problem, in a developing country. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Rufiji rural district, coastal Tanzania. STUDY PARTICIPANTS Three hundred and seventy-nine consecutively enrolled pregnant women from 16 randomly selected antenatal clinics, including 10 dispensaries, four rural health centres a...

2011
Jennifer Hollowell Laura Oakley Jennifer J Kurinczuk Peter Brocklehurst Ron Gray

BACKGROUND Infant mortality has shown a steady decline in recent years but a marked socioeconomic gradient persists. Antenatal care is generally thought to be an effective method of improving pregnancy outcomes, but the effectiveness of specific antenatal care programmes as a means of reducing infant mortality in socioeconomically disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of women has not been rigoro...

2017
Fiona C Denison Heather MacGregor Laura I Stirrat Kerrie Stevenson Jane E Norman Rebecca M Reynolds

OBJECTIVES To determine whether attendance at a specialised multidisciplinary antenatal clinic for women with class III obesity (BMI >40 kg/m2) is associated with improved clinical outcomes compared with standard antenatal care. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using routinely collected data from electronic patient record. SETTING Community and hospital based antenatal care. PARTICIPANTS...

2017
Tesera Bitew Charlotte Hanlon Eskinder Kebede Simone Honikman Michael N. Onah Abebaw Fekadu

BACKGROUND Uptake of delivery and postnatal care remains low in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), where 99% of global maternal deaths take place. However, the potential impact of antenatal depression on use of institutional delivery and postnatal care has seldom been examined. This study aimed to examine whether antenatal depressive symptoms are associated with use of maternal health car...

2017
Andrew Symon Jan Pringle Soo Downe Vanora Hundley Elaine Lee Fiona Lynn Alison McFadden Jenny McNeill Mary J Renfrew Mary Ross-Davie Edwin van Teijlingen Heather Whitford Fiona Alderdice

BACKGROUND Antenatal care models vary widely around the world, reflecting local contexts, drivers and resources. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have tested the impact of multi-component antenatal care interventions on service delivery and outcomes in many countries since the 1980s. Some have applied entirely new schemes, while others have modified existing care delivery approaches. Systema...

2017
Gezahegn Tesfaye Deborah Loxton Catherine Chojenta Agumasie Semahegn Roger Smith

BACKGROUND Antenatal care uptake is among the key indicators for monitoring the progress of maternal outcomes. Early initiation of antenatal care facilitates the timely management and treatment of pregnancy complications to reduce maternal deaths. In Ethiopia, antenatal care utilization is generally low, and delayed initiation of care is very common. We aimed to systematically identify and synt...

2015
Sherri Bucher Irene Marete Constance Tenge Edward A Liechty Fabian Esamai Archana Patel Shivaprasad S Goudar Bhalchandra Kodkany Ana Garces Elwyn Chomba Fernando Althabe Mabel Barreuta Omrana Pasha Patricia Hibberd Richard J Derman Kevin Otieno K Michael Hambidge Nancy F Krebs Waldemar A Carlo Carolyne Chemweno Robert L Goldenberg Elizabeth M McClure Janet L Moore Dennis D Wallace Sarah Saleem Marion Koso-Thomas

BACKGROUND The Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research is one of the largest international networks for testing and generating evidence-based recommendations for improvement of maternal-child health in resource-limited settings. Since 2009, Global Network sites in six low and middle-income countries have collected information on antenatal care practices, which are important as...

Journal: :BMC pregnancy and childbirth 2015
Erin Anastasi Matthias Borchert Oona M R Campbell Egbert Sondorp Felix Kaducu Olivia Hill Dennis Okeng Vicki Norah Odong Isabelle L Lange

BACKGROUND Thousands of women and newborns still die preventable deaths from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications in poor settings. Delivery with a skilled birth attendant is a vital intervention for saving lives. Yet many women, particularly where maternal mortality ratios are highest, do not have a skilled birth attendant at delivery. In Uganda, only 58 % of women deliver in a healt...

2018
Edward Tieru Dassah Yaw Adu-Sarkodie Philippe Mayaud

BACKGROUND Effective implementation of rapid point of care tests (POCTs) for antenatal syphilis screening especially in settings where antenatal care attendance is high, can significantly increase screening coverage and treatment uptake. The operational challenges of introducing rapid syphilis POCTs at scale needs to be investigated. This study explores healthcare providers' experiences and cha...

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