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Malawi women's knowledge and use of labour and birthing positions: A cross-sectional descriptive survey
2017, Women and BirthCitation Excerpt :This study found that the supine position was the most commonly used position during women's recent childbirth with the majority of women (91.4%) giving birth whilst in this position (supine position). This finding concurs with what has been reported in previous studies.3,5,6,8,9,16,17,33–35 For example, in the study by de Jonge et al.,9 the majority of women (91.1%) gave birth whilst in the supine position.
An evaluation of the quality of care for women with low risk pregnanacy: The use of evidence-based practice during labour and childbirth in four public hospitals in Tehran
2015, MidwiferyCitation Excerpt :This means that unnecessary care and interventions can be harmful (Donabedian, 1988) and over-medicalisation of care during labour and childbirth also represents substandard care (Delvaux et al., 2007). The review of the existing literature (spanning a decade) which identified high rate of interventions with several problematic practices indicates that most hospitals in developing countries have not followed EBP (Maimbolwa et al., 1997; Khayat and Campbell, 2000; Colomar et al., 2004; Khalil et al., 2005; Wick et al., 2005; Conde-Agudelo et al., 2008; Karolinski et al., 2009; Shaban et al., 2011; do Carmo Leal et al., 2014). Ensuring the care pathways for spontaneous vaginal births follow evidence-based standards is an urgent priority for improving quality of care in developing countries (Bastos et al., 2007).
The state of routine and emergency obstetric and neonatal care in Southern Province, Zambia
2015, International Journal of Gynecology and ObstetricsCitation Excerpt :Compared with EmONC, routine obstetric and neonatal care has received less attention. A 1995 study performed in Lusaka and Southern Province found inconsistent partograph use and poor support for skin-to-skin contact and early breastfeeding, but did not assess health-center infrastructure [13]. The expanded set of indicators [5] has been used in one study [14] to evaluate intrapartum and postnatal care in Ghana.
The relationship between the use of the partograph and birth outcomes at Korle-Bu teaching hospital
2013, MidwiferyCitation Excerpt :However, in a systematic Cochrane Library review of 5 studies involving 6187 women, partograph benefits for women in spontaneous labour were challenged but a possible value in low-income settings was acknowledged (Lavender et al., 2008). In a description of 84 Zambian mother/newborn dyads partograph use was infrequent, especially in rural settings (Maimbolwa et al., 1997). In Ghana, the incidence of ruptured uterus after the partograph was introduced (1:523) was compared with the 1971 estimate (1:257), which was before partograph introduction after the partograph was introduced, it was concluded that the partograph was not adequately used (Seffah, 2003).