Mapping innovations in partograph technologies: a scoping review from 2000 to 2025.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital technologies like the electronic partograph have revolutionised the documentation of progress of labour and birth. The purpose of the electronic partograph is to improve documentation of the progress of the intrapartum period by addressing challenges in partograph use. The tool provides real-time decision support, enhances data entry, and increases access and coordination of information for informed decision-making. Further research is required to map innovations in partograph technologies embedded in data documentation and labour progress monitoring.

Objective

The aim of this scoping review is to map innovations in partograph technologies based on studies published between 2000 and 2025.

Methods

This scoping review followed the five-step framework

SUBMITTER: Demissie DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12711703 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature