The effect of antenatal care follow-up on neonatal health outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neonatal mortality is one of the major public health problems throughout the world and most notably in developing countries. There exist inconclusive findings on the effect of antenatal care visits on neonatal death worldwide. Thus, the aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to reveal the pooled effect of antenatal care visits on neonatal death.

Methods

The present systematic review and meta-analysis was performed using published literature, which was accessed from national and international databases such as, Medline/PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Central library, Google Scholar, and HINARI. STATA/SE for windows version 13 software was used to calculate the pooled effect size with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of maternal antenatal care visits

SUBMITTER: Wondemagegn AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6296103 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature