Understanding challenges as they impact on hospital-level care for pre-eclampsia in rural Ethiopia: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore hospital-level care for pre-eclampsia in Ethiopia, considering the perspectives of those affected and healthcare providers, in order to understand barriers and facilitators to early detection, care escalation and appropriate management.

Setting

A primary and a general hospital in southern Ethiopia.

Participants

Women with lived experience of pre-eclampsia care in the hospital, families of women deceased due to pre-eclampsia, midwives, doctors, integrated emergency surgical officers and healthcare managers.

Results

This study identified numerous systemic barriers to provision of quality, person-centred care for pre-eclampsia in hospitals. Individual staff efforts to respond to maternal emergencies were undermined by a lack of consistency in

SUBMITTER: Robbins T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10111927 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature