“Quality of prenatal and maternal care: bridging the know-do gap” (QUALMAT study): an electronic clinical decision support system for rural Sub-Saharan Africa
Open Access
- 10 April 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
- Vol. 13 (1), 44
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-13-44
Abstract
Despite strong efforts to improve maternal care, its quality remains deficient in many countries of Sub-Saharan Africa as persistently high maternal mortality rates testify. The QUALMAT study seeks to improve the performance and motivation of rural health workers and ultimately quality of primary maternal health care services in three African countries Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Tanzania. One major intervention is the introduction of a computerized Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for rural primary health care centers to be used by health care workers of different educational levels.Keywords
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