Challenges for the adoption of evidence-based maternity care in Turkey

Evoking the Guardian Angel: Childbirth Care in a Palestinian Hospital

“…The results support findings from previous studies documenting the gap between evidence-based practices and routine care in Palestine 11 , the Arab world 15 and other regions of the world as well. 16,17 However, this study was able to validate providers' reported practices through observation and exit interviews with women, to understand further the process of care. The research process stimulated health care providers to think, interact and initiate small changes in their own practice during the fieldwork.…”

Quality of Normal Delivery Care in Côte d'Ivoire

“…13,14 This, together with the high episiotomy rates, the lack of systematic oxytocics administration during the third stage of labour, and the lack of antimicrobial ointment use, illustrates the gap between evidence and practice in obstetric care. 16,28,[36][37][38] Despite the low technical quality, and the far from optimal personal support given to women during and after labour, most women reported to be satisfied with the care received. Some studies have revealed that pregnant women were fairly uncritical of health care, accepting whatever care they receive as appropriate.…”

“…3,6 A number of tasks have been identified as constituting skilled care 4 and an increasing number of studies are now looking into the performance of so-called skilled attendants. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Measuring performance is difficult however, indicators of skilled delivery care have not been standardised, and some studies rely on record review only. [17][18][19][20] The objective of this study was to assess quality of normal delivery care at first and secondary level health facilities in Côte d'Ivoire, using an observation checklist to measure adherence to internationally accepted criteria of obstetric care.…”

Childbirth care practices in public sector facilities in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A descriptive study

“…A wide range of well-established online databases was used including Medline, Maternity and Infant Care, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Cochrane Library Database of Systematic Reviews, Pubmed and Google Scholar. Some studies found had examined the routine policies and practices of normal birth worldwide (Maimbolwa et al, 1997;Festin et al, 2003;Turan et al, 2006;Harris et al, 2007;Danichevski et al, 2008;The SEA-ORCHID study group, 2008;Chalmers et al, 2009). In the Arab world, studies of hospital policies and practices for normal childbirth have begun to assess whether they are within EBP (Khayat and Campbell, 2000;Abdulsalam et al, 2004;Khalil et al, 2005;Wick et al, 2005;Hassan-Bitar and Wick, 2007;Sweidan et al, 2008;Khresheh et al, 2009).…”