Antenatal Care and Risk Assessment in a Working Primary Health Care Clinic: a Critical Look
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Visits to antenatal clinics are meant to detect, prevent or manage abnormalities in early pregnancy and prepare mothers for safe deliveries. Risk assessment, using risk scores, is one of the tools used for this purpose. This study describes the working procedure and the services delivered in a working clinic in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, analyses antenatal visits and describes various aspects of the process of risk assessment.
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