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Antenatal care packages with reduced visits and perinatal mortality: a secondary analysis of the WHO Antenatal Care Trial
BACKGROUND In 2001, the WHO Antenatal Care Trial (WHOACT) concluded that an antenatal care package of evidence-based screening, therapeutic interventions and education across four antenatal visits for low-risk women was not inferior to standard antenatal care and may reduce cost. However, an updated Cochrane review in 2010 identified an increased risk of perinatal mortality of borderline statis...
متن کاملEvaluating a policy of reduced consultant antenatal clinic visits for low risk multiparous women.
OBJECTIVES To evaluate a change in antenatal care policy to reduce antenatal clinic visits, whereby low risk multiparous women were managed by the primary care team and seen at booking and at 41 weeks' gestation at the consultant antenatal clinic. DESIGN Comparative study of low risk multiparous women retrospectively identified through the Oxford obstetric data system and cared for by three c...
متن کاملTailoring antenatal visits: quality over quantity.
Editor – The article by Lumbiganon et al. (1), which describes Thailand’s decision to reduce the number of antenatal visits from approximately eight to five, based on evidence gathered by WHO (2) that fewer visits have no adverse consequences for the woman or her baby, raises several points that require clarification. First, the article reports that in the original research: “Some women in the ...
متن کاملAntenatal care packages with reduced visits and perinatal mortality: a secondary analysis of the WHO antenatal care trial - Comentary: routine antenatal visits for healthy pregnant women do make a difference
The practice and timing of routine antenatal visits for healthy pregnant women, introduced arbitrarily and without evidence of effectiveness, have become entrenched in obstetric practice over the last century. In 2001 the large, cluster randomized WHO Antenatal Care Trial concluded that a goal-orientated package of antenatal care with reduced visits seemed not to affect maternal and perinatal o...
متن کاملRegular Antenatal Care Visits Predict Good Knowledge Among Post-natal Mothers Regarding Entitlements of Health Programs in Western India
Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK) and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) were launched with the objective of increasing institutional deliveries. But, its knowledge among the post-natal mothers is not known. This research evaluated the knowledge of two national health programs among post-natal mothers and found out the predictors of good knowledge about the entitlements...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.313.7050.167