Family Medicine & Medical Science Research
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Caroline Priya K

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• Research Article
  Medical Decision Support Technology for Better Antenatal Care of the Mother, Under-Five Child Survival and Child Health in Rural India
  Author(s): Seenivasan P, Sujatha Shritharan, Caroline Priya K, Saurav Das, Srinivasan R, Satya Sidhartha Parija and Gurlivleen Singh Grewal Seenivasan P, Sujatha Shritharan, Caroline Priya K, Saurav Das, Srinivasan R, Satya Sidhartha Parija and Gurlivleen Singh Grewal
  
  Aim: To develop a decision support technology that can be used by the primary health care providers to take appropriate decisions while rendering health services to Mothers in antenatal Period, Mothers in Postnatal Period, Children below the age of 5 years. Materials and Methods: “Integrated Management of Childhood and Neonatal Illness” was chosen for prototyping for implementation as it was readily available. The developed software prototype was given to the protocol development unit and field trial unit for the initial feedback. We tested our decision support system (DSS) for maternal and childcare in two phases. The first phase involved live testing of the DSS in the urban hospital and in second phase it was given to Village Health workers (VHWs) in two rural Primary Health Centers. Result: We achiev.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2327-4972.1000136

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