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Prenatal follow-up of high-risk pregnancy in the public service
Fabiana Fontana Medeiros1, Izabel Dayana de Lemos Santos1, Rosângela Aparecida Pimenta Ferrari1
1Universidade Estadual de Londrina. Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
Objective:
to analyze the prenatal follow-up of high-risk pregnancy in the public service.
Method:
an analytical cross-sectional study carried out in a public maternity hospital in the South of Brazil, during the hospitalization of 319 postpartum women using a semi-structured tool for transcription of the prenatal card records and interview. The data were analyzed using the Chi-Square test (p≤0.05).
Results:
the adequacy of prenatal care was high (74%); 22.6% intermediate; 3.4% inefficient. Prenatal care had high coverage (100%), early onset (81.5%) and six or more visits (92.4%), but (77.4%) did not receive information about gestational disease and examinations (69.3%). There was statistical significance between the quality of prenatal care and the place of prenatal care (p=0.005).
Conclusion:
the need to implement a specific protocol for high-risk gestation and continuous education to the teams was evidenced.
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