Use of mHealth tools to register birth outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Accurate reporting of birth outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) is essential. Mobile health (mHealth) tools have been proposed as a replacement for conventional paper-based registers. mHealth could provide timely data for individual facilities and health departments, as well as capture deliveries outside facilities. This scoping review evaluates which mHealth tools have been reported to birth outcomes in the delivering room in LMICs and documents their reported advantages and drawbacks.

Design

A scoping review following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses and Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines for scoping reviews and the mHealth evidence reporting and assessment checklist for evaluating mHealth interventions.

SUBMITTER: Cansdale LG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9562304 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature