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WHO Proposes New Model For Provision Of Antenatal Care

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 14th, 2001

A new model for the provision of antenatal care - involving fewer clinic visits and potentially reduced healthcare costs - was proposed in the May 19, 2001, issue of The Lancet with the publication of the WHO Antenatal Care Randomized Controlled Trial and an accompanying systematic review.

Antenatal care is one of the most common medical practices, although it has undergone little scientific evaluation. Furthermore, its use in less-developed countries is largely based on antenatal-care models of more-developed settings.

Jose Villar and colleagues from the World Health Organization (WHO) undertook a multicenter randomized controlled trial...

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