Women and birth : journal of the Australian College of Midwives
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To search literature published on the administration of intradermal sterile water injections to women in labour who experience severe low back pain, and to critically evaluate the evidence for therapeutic merit. ⋯ Intradermal injections of sterile water possess powerful analgesic benefits for women experiencing low back pain in labour and their use in this therapeutic setting is justifiable.
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Multicenter Study
Effect of audit and feedback on the availability, utilisation and quality of emergency obstetric care in three districts in Malawi.
Facility-based maternal death reviews and criterion-based clinical audit, were introduced in three districts in Malawi in 2006. ⋯ There is need to increase availability of emergency obstetric care by upgrading some health centres to EmOC level through training of staff and provision of equipment and supplies.