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"The House of the Pregnant women" program: users' profile and maternal and perinatal health care results

This is a cross-sectional, descriptive and exploratory study, which was aimed at characterizing the profile and results of health care delivery to 820 users of the "House of the Pregnant Women" at a philanthropic maternity in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, admitted from March 2008 till December 2009. Statistical analysis was based on absolute and relative frequencies. The most common obstetric diagnoses on admission were related to preterm labor and blood pressure. Most pregnant women were discharged (44.1%) or gave birth at the maternity after the stabilization of their clinical condition (45.5%); in 10.2% of cases, the clinical condition worsened and the women returned to the hospital. Among newborns, 2.8% had Apgar <7 at 5 minutes, and the frequencies of stillbirths and neonatal deaths were, respectively, 2.6% and 3.5%. Health care delivery at the "House of the Pregnant Women" promotes improvements in patients‘ clinical conditions and potentially prevents factors that contribute to increase maternal and perinatal mortality rates.

Pregnancy; Pregnancy, high-risk; Delivery of health care; Nursing


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