ArticleHeliyon2019
Accessibility of pregnancy-related point-of-care diagnostic tests for maternal healthcare in rural primary healthcare facilities in Northern Ghana: A cross-sectional survey.
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- Factors influencing implementation of point-of-care tests for maternal and newborn screening and diagnosis in low-resource settings: a systematic review.BMC global and public health · 2026Pooled it
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- Facilitators and barriers to in vitro diagnostics implementation in resource-limited settings: A scoping review.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2023Article
- Rational design of an essential diagnostics network to support Universal Health Coverage: a modeling analysis.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Facilitators and barriers to point-of-care testing for sexually transmitted infections in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Availability and Use of Mobile Health Technology for Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Support by Health Workers in the Ashanti Region of Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- Geographical access to point-of-care testing for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy as an integral part of maternal healthcare in Ghana.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Article
- Maternal perceptions of the quality of Care in the Free Maternal Care Policy in sub-Sahara Africa: a systematic scoping review.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Geographical Accessibility to Glucose-6-Phosphate Dioxygenase Deficiency Point-of-Care Testing for Antenatal Care in Ghana.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Impact of Implementing Antenatal Syphilis Point-of-Care Testing on Maternal Mortality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Mapping evidence of free maternal healthcare financing and quality of care in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic scoping review protocol.Health research policy and systems · 2019Article
- Estimating the Spatial Accessibility to Blood Group and Rhesus Type Point-of-Care Testing for Maternal Healthcare in Ghana.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Geographical Accessibility to District Hospitals/Medical Laboratories for Comprehensive Antenatal Point-of-Care Diagnostic Services in the Upper East Region, Ghana.EClinicalMedicine · 2019Article
- Supply chain management and accessibility to point-of-care testing in resource-limited settings: a systematic scoping review.BMC health services research · 2019Article
- Geographic accessibility to public health facilities providing tuberculosis testing services at point-of-care in the upper east region, Ghana.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Poor supply chain management and stock-outs of point-of-care diagnostic tests in Upper East Region's primary healthcare clinics, Ghana.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundImproving access to maternal healthcare in resource-limited settings plays a critical role in improving maternal health outcomes and reducing maternal deaths. However
methodWe randomly selected 100 PHC clinics providing maternal healthcare from a total list of 356 PHC clinicss obtained from the Regional Health Directorate. Selected clinics were surveyed from February to March 2018, using an adopted survey tool. We obtained data for clinic-level staffing, availability, usage, and desired POC diagnostic tests. Stata 14 was used for data analysis.
findingsMajority (64%) of the respondents were midwives. The mean ± standard deviation (SD) years of work experience and working hours per week were estimated at 5.6 years ± 0.4 and 122 hours ± 5.2 respectively. Average antenatal clinic attendance (clinic census) per month was 65 ± 67 pregnant women (Range: 3-360). The mean ± SD POC tests available and use was 4.9 tests ± 2.2. POC tests for malaria, HIV, urine pregnancy, and blood pressure monitoring devices were available in most clinics. POC tests requested by the clinics to assist them care for pregnant women included: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (95%); hepatitis C (94%); sickling (91%); tuberculosis, blood glucose and blood type (89%) each; urinary tract infection (87%); urine protein (81%); hepatitis B (78%); haemoglobin (76%); and syphilis (76%).
interpretationThere is poor accessibility to pregnancy-related POC diagnostic tests for maternal healthcare due to low availability (≤5 tests per PHC clinic) of POC tests in rural PHC clinics in northern Ghana.
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