In contrast to the UK, Canada and New Zealand, where general practitioner (GP) involvement in pregnancy care has decreased, GPs in Australia continue to be high providers of antenatal care.2 However, there is very little published research about the antenatal care provided by GPs in Australia. Australia has consistently had lower maternal and perinatal death rates than the majority of comparabl...

BACKGROUND When examining risk factors for inadequate antenatal care, the assessment of antenatal care hardly considers the content and timing of interventions during pregnancy. This study aims to provide information about the importance of predisposing, enabling and pregnancy-related determinants on the received content and timing of antenatal care. METHODS In the Brussels Metropolitan Regio...

This study aimed at analyzing the social representation of pregnant women about pregnancy, regarding care provided in nursing consultations during the prenatal period. A qualitative study conducted by semi-structured interviews, with fifteen pregnant women at the nursing consultations of the prenatal program regarding the care provided, analyzed by the ALCEST software. Three thematic axes were ...

BACKGROUND/AIM To examine the relationship between sociodemographic and pregnancy features and fetal health locus of control (FHLC) in a sample of pregnant Turkish women. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was conducted with 256 pregnant women. Data were collected by demographic questionnaire and the FHLC Scale consisting of 3 components: 1) Internality Scale (FHLC-I), 2) Powerful Others Scale (...

OBJECTIVES To describe the major pregnancy-induced physiologic changes that affect the care of patients who are critically ill. METHODS We reviewed relevant textbooks and articles pertaining to physiologic alterations produced by pregnancy. Those changes that have a bearing on patients admitted to an intensive care unit were abstracted, summarized, and organized by organ system. CONCLUSIONS...

background and purpose: women with low (high) pre-pregnancy body mass index (bmi) recently delivered infants with approximately normal or close to normal birth weights under the high quality of prenatal care. this study estimated the effect of pre-pregnancy bmi when concerns about the effects of different quality levels of prenatal care and the health status of mothers and their infants existed...

Background: Child birth is natural and continuous process in which many women are at risk for developing complication during child birth. The skilled care for all women during childbirth is a key approach for saving women’s lives and ensuring the best chance of delivering a healthy infant. Methods: A community based cross-sectional study was conducted from January 1-31, 2014. Data were collecte...

The estimated prevalence of ectopic pregnancy is 1-2% worldwide. In the United Kingdom nearly 12 000 ectopic pregnancies are diagnosed each year, which gives a prevalence of 1.1%. Although death after ectopic pregnancy is rare, the burden of disease is high owing to the cost of diagnostic tests and expensive treatment. Serious adverse outcomes in ectopic pregnancies are typically caused by dela...

Pregnant and postpartum patients represent a challenge to critical care physicians, as two patients in one have to be cared for and because specific obstetric disorders, not universally covered in formal critical care training, need to be managed. Pregnancy also alters physiologic norms, so that the critical care physician may either fail to recognize a value as abnormal in pregnancy or mistake...