Evaluation of prenatal care in unit with family health strategy.

We analyzed prenatal care (PN) provided at a unit of the Family Health Strategy Service in São Paulo, according to the indicators of the Program for the Humanization of Prenatal and Birth (PHPB). We compared adequacy of PN in terms of sociodemographic variables, procedures, examinations and maternal and perinatal outcomes. Cross-sectional study with data from records of 308 pregnant women enrolled in 2011.

Maternal and neonatal outcomes at an alongside birth center and at a hospital.

Objective: To compare maternal and neonatal outcomes in low-risk women assisited in an alongside birth center and at a hospital.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with a representative sample of low-risk women in São Paulo (Southeastern Brazil), from 2003 to 2006. The study included 991 women who delivered a child at the alongside birth center and 325 who delivered a child at a hospital.

[Transferring mothers from a free-standing birth center to a reference hospital].

The objective of this descriptive study was to characterize the transfers of mothers from the Sapopemba Birth Center to reference hospitals in São Paulo, from September 1998 to July 2008. The studied population was 229 cases of mother transfers. Data were obtained from medical records and record books of the transferred women.

[Normative prenatal evaluation at a philanthropic maternity hospital in São Paulo].

This cross-sectional study counted with the participation of 301 pregnant women seen in 2009 at a philanthropic maternity hospital in the city of São Paulo (a prenatal support program named Pré-Natal do Amparo Maternal - PN-AM). The objectives of this study were to evaluate the prenatal care according to the initial gestational age, the number of appointments that were held, the continuity of the assistance, and relate the appropriateness with the socio-demographic, obstetric and local variables of the initial prenatal care. The analysis criteria used was initiating prenatal care before 120 days of gestation and attending at least six appointments.

[Maternal and perinatal outcomes of an alongside hospital birth center in the city of São Paulo, Brazil].

The aim of this study was to describe the maternal and perinatal results of care in the alongside hospital birth center Casa de Maria (CPN-CM), located in the city of São Paulo. The random sample included 991 women and their newborns, attended between 2003 and 2006. The results showed that 92.

Risk factors for neonatal transfers from the Sapopemba free-standing birth centre to a hospital in São Paulo, Brazil.

Objective: to identify risk factors associated with neonatal transfers from a free-standing birth centre to a hospital.

Design: epidemiological case-control study.

Setting: midwifery-led free-standing birth centre in São Paulo, Brazil.