Building a Digital Tool for the Adoption of the World Health Organization's Antenatal Care Recommendations: Methodological Intersection of Evidence, Clinical Logic, and Digital Technology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the key mandates of the World Health Organization (WHO) is to develop guidelines, defined as "a document containing recommendations for clinical practice or public health policy." Guidelines represent the global standard for information sources shaping clinical practice and public health policies. Despite the rigorous development process and the value of guidelines for setting standards, implementing such standards within local contexts and at the point of care is a well-documented challenge. Digital technologies enable agile information management and may facilitate the adaptation of guidelines to diverse settings of health services delivery.

Objective

The objective of this paper is to detail the systematic and iterative process involved in transforming th

SUBMITTER: Haddad SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7983224 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature