"quality of prenatal and maternal care: Bridging the know-do gap" (QUALMAT study): An electronic clinical decision support system for rural Sub-Saharan Africa

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Blank, Antje ^a   Prytherch, Helen ^b   Kaltschmidt, Jens ^a   Krings, Andreas ^a   Sukums, Felix ^a,c   Mensah, Nathan ^a,d   Zakane, Alphonse ^e,f   Loukanova, Svetla ^b   Gustafsson, Lars L ^f   Sauerborn, Rainer ^b   Haefeli, Walter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^d NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^e CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN SANTÉ DE NOUNA   (Burkina Faso)

^f KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support systems; Guideline adherence; Maternal health services; Medical informatics; Millennium development goal; Motivation by information technology; Perinatal care; Pregnancy; Prenatal care; Rural maternal healthcare

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ALGORITHM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LETTER; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH; SOFTWARE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84875938729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-44     Document Type: Article

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