Postnatal quality of care measures for mothers and newborns at home: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT: The postnatal period is one of the most critical periods in the lives of mothers and newborns. Yet, the postnatal period remains the most neglected period along the maternal health care continuum. Globally, measures assessing quality of postnatal care (PNC) often focus on care at health facility level, the provision of home-based PNC and associated quality of care measures seem largely overlooked. This scoping review aims to give an overview of the literature on measures assessing quality of PNC for mothers and newborns in a home-based setting. This review was conducted according to the Arksey and O'Malley's methodology for scoping reviews. Three electronic bibliographic databases were searched together with a grey literature search. Two reviewers independently screened the identified arti

SUBMITTER: Mespreuve AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11335102 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature