The Global Network Maternal Newborn Health Registry: a multi-national, community-based registry of pregnancy outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research (Global Network) supports and conducts clinical trials in resource-limited countries by pairing foreign and U.S. investigators, with the goal of evaluating low-cost, sustainable interventions to improve the health of women and children. Accurate reporting of births, stillbirths, neonatal deaths, maternal mortality, and measures of obstetric and neonatal care is critical to efforts to discover strategies for improving pregnancy outcomes in resource-limited settings. Because most of the sites in the Global Network have weak registration within their health care systems, the Global Network developed the Maternal Newborn Health Registry (MNHR), a prospective, population-based registry of pregnancies at the Global

SUBMITTER: Bose CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4464212 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature