Competence of birth attendants at providing emergency obstetric care under India's JSY conditional cash transfer program for institutional delivery: An assessment using case vignettes in Madhya Pradesh province

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chaturvedi, Sarika ^a,b   Upadhyay, Sourabh ^a   De Costa, Ayesha ^b  

^a RD Gardi Medical College   (India)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clinical competence; Conditional cash transfer; Emergency obstetric care; India; JSY; Maternal mortality; Midwifery; Obstetric Nursing; Vignettes

Indexed keywords

ERGOMETRINE; MISOPROSTOL; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPETENCE; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELIVERY; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MIDWIFE; NURSE; OBSTETRIC DISORDER; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; VIGNETTE; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CENTER; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRICAL NURSING; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; REIMBURSEMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFERY; OBSTETRIC NURSING; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903520263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-174     Document Type: Article

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