Hearing deficiencies are a prevalent disease and justify the need for regulation of the Laws and their execution through Hearing Health Care Ordinances. In line with public policies, maternity hospitals that were part of the network began to implement the Newborn Hearing Screening (NHS) service, as had occurred in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The otoacoustic emissions test is used for NHS as it ...

use of such nurseries varies from hospital to hospital, more especially with regard to the admission of babies born on district and in nursing-homes. Necessarily, policy is influenced to a large extent by the adequacy of alternative facilities available but gives first consideration to the prior claims of babies born in the maternity hospital, of which the paediatric section constitutes an inte...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of maternity waiting homes on the use of facility-based birthing services for women in two remote districts of Timor-Leste. METHODS A before-and-after study design was used to compare the number of facility-based births in women who lived at different distances (0-5, 6-25, 26-50 and > 50 km) from the health centre before and after implementation of maternity wa...

BACKGROUND Understanding immigrant women's experiences of maternity care is critical if receiving country care systems are to respond appropriately to increasing global migration. This systematic review aimed to compare what we know about immigrant and non-immigrant women's experiences of maternity care. METHODS Medline, CINAHL, Health Star, Embase and PsychInfo were searched for the period 1...

BACKGROUND Clinical guidelines do not recommend maintenance tocolysis for the management of preterm labour. The French national survey EVAPRIMA revealed it was administered to more than 50% of women hospitalised for preterm labour. Our aim was to identify the individual and organisational determinants associated with maintenance tocolysis. METHODS The study was a secondary analysis of the pro...

BACKGROUND Equal access for all based on need is part of a conceptualisation of quality underpinning recent UK NHS policies. OBJECTIVE To develop metrics for access to maternity care from routinely available data in order to inform inequalities monitoring and commissioning. DESIGN Cross-sectional cohort design using case-note audit and postnatal questionnaire. SETTING London hospital, UK,...

BACKGROUND Domestic abuse is a significant public health issue. It occurs more frequently among disabled women than those without a disability and evidence suggests that a great deal of domestic abuse begins or worsens during pregnancy. All women and their infants are entitled to equal access to high quality maternity care. However, research has shown that disabled women who experience domestic...

BACKGROUND Maternity care is recognised as a particularly high-risk speciality that is subject to investigation and inquiry, and improvements in risk management have been recommended. However, the quality of guidelines for local reviews of maternity incidents is unknown. The aim of the study is to appraise the quality of local guidance on conducting reviews of severe maternity incidents in the ...