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Health workers’ perspectives on the quality of maternal and newborn health care...
Valente, EP; Mariani, I; Bomben, A; Morano, S; Gemperle, M; Otelea, MR; Miani, C; Elden, H; Sarantaki, A; Costa, R; Baranowska, B; König-Bachmann, MBackground Health workers’ (HWs’) perspectives on the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) are not routinely collected. In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to document HWs’ perspectives on QMNC around childbirth in 12 World Health Organization (WHO) European countries. Methods HWs involved in maternal/neonatal care for at least one year between March 2020 and March 2023 answered an online validated W...
Individual and country-level variables associated with the medicalization of bi...
Miani, C; Wandschneider, L; Batram-Zantvoort, S; Covi, B; Elden, H; Nedberg, IH; Drglin, Z; Pumpure, E; Costa, R; Rozée, V; Otelea, M; Drandić, DObjective: To investigate potential associations between individual and country-level factors and medicalization of birth in 15 European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Online anonymous survey of women who gave birth in 2020–2021. Multivariable multilevel logistic regression models estimating associations between indicators of medicalization (cesarean, instrumental vaginal birth [IVB], episioto...
Rates of instrumental vaginal birth and cesarean and quality of maternal and ne...
Lazzerini, M; Valente, EP; Covi, B; Rozée, V; Costa, R; Otelea, MR; Abderhalden-Zellweger, A; Węgrzynowska, M; Linden, K; Arendt, M; Brigidi, SObjective: To explore the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) during the COVID-19 pandemic by facility type among 16 European countries, comparing rates of instrumental vaginal birth and cesarean. Methods: Women who gave birth in the WHO European Region from March 1, 2020, to February 7, 2022, answered a validated online questionnaire. Rates of instrumental birth, instrumental vaginal birth, and cesarea...