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Antenatal 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…

Overview of attention for article published in Reproductive Health, April 2013
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Title
Antenatal 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
Published in
Reproductive Health, April 2013
DOI 10.1186/1742-4755-10-20
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Authors

G Justus Hofmeyr, Ellen D Hodnett

Abstract

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 outcomes. The reduced visit package has been implemented in several countries. The current re-analysis finds that the significantly increased perinatal mortality which occurred in the reduced visit package persists after adjustment for potential confounding factors. The WHO Antenatal Care Trial provided the first evidence from a randomized trial that the traditional high frequency of routine visits in the third trimester may well reduce perinatal mortality.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Indonesia 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Unknown 113 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 13%
Researcher 8 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Student > Postgraduate 7 6%
Other 20 17%
Unknown 31 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 21%
Social Sciences 8 7%
Unspecified 4 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 3%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 35 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 November 2021.
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#1,651,250
of 22,705,019 outputs
Outputs from Reproductive Health
#149
of 1,405 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,260
of 198,792 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Reproductive Health
#2
of 12 outputs
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