Effect of COVID-19 on maternal and neonatal services – Authors' reply
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Date
2021
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Elsevier
Abstract
We thank Asma Khalil and colleagues,
Jogender Kumar, and Deepak Jha
and colleagues for their feedback in
response to our analysis on the indirect
effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
lockdown in Nepal on intrapartum
care and outcomes (preterm births,
stillbirths, and neonatal mortality).1
As noted by Khalil and colleagues,
our study underestimated the true
burden of stillbirths because the data
are facility-based and we excluded
women who did not have a fetal heart
sound at admission and women with
an antepartum stillbirth occurring
before admission. Although we
included stillbirths that occurred
after admission, the data were not
disaggregated by time of stillbirth.
In Nepal, gestational age estimation
is commonly based on the last
menstrual period, with few women
having ultrasonography-dated
pregnancy. We are doing additional
research now on antenatal care and
associated factors.
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Covid-19, Lockdown, Maternal and neonatal services, Nepal, Intrapartum care
Citation
Kinney, M.V. et al. (2021). Effect of COVID-19 on maternal and neonatal services – Authors' reply. The Lancet Global Health, 9(2), e116