What matters to women: A systematic scoping review to identify the processes and outcomes of antenatal care provision that are important to healthy pregnant women

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 529-539

  Downe, S ^a   Finlayson, K ^a   Tuncalp O ^b   Metin Gulmezoglu A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; guidelines; pregnancy; social support; women's views; wordclouds; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

BIRTH; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LABOR; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MATERNAL WELFARE; META ANALYSIS; MOTHER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SKILL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANT WOMEN; PRENATAL CARE;

EID: 84959515088     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.13819     Document Type: Review

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