Lost opportunities for effective management of obstetric conditions to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in Argentina and UruguayAriel Karolinski
Population Health Research Center CISAP Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional, Durand Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 110:175-80. 2010
..To review the use of evidence-based practices in the care of mothers who died or had severe morbidity attending public hospitals in two Latin American countries...
- Communities, birth attendants and health facilities: a continuum of emergency maternal and newborn care (the Global Network's EmONC trial)
Omrana Pasha
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 10:82. 2010
..However, the effectiveness of emergency obstetric and neonatal care services has never been proven. Also unproven is the effectiveness of community mobilization and community birth attendant training to improve pregnancy outcomes...
- Cigarette smoking and risk of gestational diabetes: a systematic review of observational studies
Eliana M Wendland
Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 8:53. 2008
..Therefore, we aimed to systematically review all epidemiological evidence to examine the association between cigarette smoking during pregnancy and risk of developing gestational diabetes mellitus...
The right to be accompanied at birth: new laws in Argentina and UruguayJose M Belizan
Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Reprod Health Matters 13:158-9. 2005
- Health consequences of the increasing caesarean section rates
Jose M Belizan
Department of Mother and Child Health Research, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy IECS, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Epidemiology 18:485-6. 2007
..Testing of interventions to reduce unnecessary C-sections is also needed, with strategies to enhance the role of women in the process of their obstetric care...
Using Uniject to increase the use of prophylactic oxytocin for management of the third stage of labor in Latin AmericaFernando Althabe
Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, IECS, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 114:184-9. 2011
..To evaluate a multifaceted intervention for effectiveness in increasing the use of prophylactic oxytocin by birth attendants (obstetricians, midwives, and nurses) working in small maternity hospitals in Argentina...
- A pilot randomized controlled trial of controlled cord traction to reduce postpartum blood loss
Fernando Althabe
Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 107:4-7. 2009
..To evaluate whether controlled cord traction (CCT) for management of the third stage of labor reduced postpartum blood loss compared with a "hands-off" management protocol...
- Health inequality in Latin America
Jose M Belizan
Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lancet 370:1599-600. 2007
- Evidence-based maternal and perinatal healthcare practices in public hospitals in Argentina
Ariel Karolinski
Population Health Research Center CISAP, Durand Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 105:118-22. 2009
..To investigate the use of beneficial maternal and perinatal healthcare practices in a network of public maternity hospitals in Argentina...
- Antenatal corticosteroids trial in preterm births to increase neonatal survival in developing countries: study protocol
Fernando Althabe
Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy IECS, Dr Emilio Ravignani 2024, Buenos Aires, C1414CPV, Argentina
Reprod Health 9:22. 2012
..In both intervention and control clusters, health providers will be trained in essential newborn care for low birth weight babies. The primary outcome is neonatal mortality at 28 days of life in preterm infants...
- [Smoking during pregnancy in Argentina and Uruguay]
Fernando Althabe
Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria IECS, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Medicina (B Aires) 68:48-54. 2008
..For the development of a new program, any intervention intending to have at least a moderate and sustainable success, it should seriously consider including components targeting the smoking environment of the pregnant women who smoke...
- Neonatal death in low- to middle-income countries: a global network study
Jose M Belizan
Institute for Clinical Effectiveness, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Am J Perinatol 29:649-56. 2012
..To determine population-based neonatal mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries and to examine gestational age, birth weight, and timing of death to assess the potentially preventable neonatal deaths...
- Use of a rapid test on umbilical cord blood to screen for Trypanosoma cruzi infection in pregnant women in Argentina, Bolivia, Honduras, and Mexico
Sergio Sosa-Estani
Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria, Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación de Endemoepidemias CeNDIE ANLIS Dr Carlos G Malbrán, Ministerio de Salud, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Am J Trop Med Hyg 79:755-9. 2008
..6% and 99.0%, respectively. These results show the ability for a rapid determination of the presence of T. cruzi-specific antibodies in umbilical cord blood as a pragmatic strategy to screen for infection in pregnant women...
- Inequities in the use of cesarean section deliveries in the world
Luz Gibbons
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Institute of Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Am J Obstet Gynecol 206:331.e1-19. 2012
..The purpose of this study was to describe the unequal distribution in the performance of cesarean section delivery (CS) in the world and the resource-use implications of such inequity...
- Interest of pregnant women in the use of SMS (short message service) text messages for the improvement of perinatal and postnatal care
Gabriela Cormick
Department of Mother and Child Health Research, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Dr Emilio Ravignani 2024, Buenos Aires, C1414CPV, Argentina
Reprod Health 9:9. 2012
..This information is not available and it is the basis to develop a strategy for improving maternal care via cell phones...
- [Rates of caesarean sections tn two types of private hospitals: restriced-access and open-access]
Leonardo Paleari
Programa de Efectividad Clínica, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas Norberto Quirno, Instituto Universitario CEMIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ginecol Obstet Mex 80:263-9. 2012
..In recent years, rising rates of caesarean section are of concern in the medical community in many countries, especially in Latin America...
- A behavioral intervention to improve obstetrical care
Fernando Althabe
Institute of Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina
N Engl J Med 358:1929-40. 2008
..Implementation of evidence-based obstetrical practices remains a significant challenge. Effective strategies to disseminate and implement such practices are needed...
- Weight status and hypertension among adolescent girls in Argentina and Norway: data from the ENNyS and HUNT studies
Marit Stray-Pedersen
Department of Mother and Child Health Research, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy IECS, Buenos Aires, Argentina
BMC Public Health 9:398. 2009
..To provide data on overweight, obesity and hypertension among adolescent girls in Norway and Argentina...
