Antenatal care for healthy pregnant women: a mapping of interventions from existing guidelines to inform the development of new WHO guidance on antenatal care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization (WHO) is in the process of updating antenatal care (ANC) guidelines.

Objectives

To map the existing clinical practice guidelines related to routine ANC for healthy women and to summarise all practices considered during routine ANC.

Search strategy

A systematic search in four databases for all clinical practice guidelines published after January 2000.

Selection criteria

Two researchers independently assessed the list of potentially eligible publications.

Data collection and analysis

Information on scope of the guideline, type of practice, associated gestational age, recommendation type and the source of evidence were mapped.

Main results

Of 1866 references, we identified 85 guidelines focusing on the ANC per

SUBMITTER: Abalos E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5019265 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature