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Guidelines and best practice recommendations on reproductive health services provision amid COVID-19 pandemic: scoping review
BACKGROUND: Policymakers and health professionals prefer to use summarized evidence of practice recommendations. The aim of this scoping review is therefore to identify available guidelines, consensus statements, the standard of practice, and practice recommendations on reproductive health service p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7856605/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33536001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10346-2 |
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author | Tolu, Lemi Belay Feyissa, Garumma Tolu Jeldu, Wondimu Gudu |
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description | BACKGROUND: Policymakers and health professionals prefer to use summarized evidence of practice recommendations. The aim of this scoping review is therefore to identify available guidelines, consensus statements, the standard of practice, and practice recommendations on reproductive health service provision during the COVID-19 pandemics. METHODS: We searched guideline databases and websites of professional associations and international organizations working on sexual and reproductive health. We looked for practice recommendations on sexual reproductive health services (SRH) during COVID-19 pandemics. Additionally, we searched: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Google Scholar. Data extraction was done by two independent reviewers using a customized tool that was developed to record the key information of the source that’s relevant to the review question. The difference between the two authors on data extraction was resolved by discussion. RESULTS: A total of 21 records were included in the review. Identified recommendations were classified into thematic areas. The records addressed approaches to antenatal care, labour and delivery, postnatal care, safe abortion, contraception, gender-based violence, and artificial reproduction. CONCLUSIONS: There were consistent consensus statements and recommendations that there should be access to sexual and reproductive health services like antenatal care (ANC), postnatal care (PNC), contraception service, safe abortion care, and clinical management of rape survivors during the COVID-19 pandemics with the concerted effort of service re-organization. The practice recommendations focus on innovative ways of service provision to minimize patient and staff exposure to COVID-19 as well as alleviate the burden on the health care system. These include utilizing telemedicine and community/home-based care or self-care. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-10346-2. |
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spelling | pubmed-78566052021-02-03 Guidelines and best practice recommendations on reproductive health services provision amid COVID-19 pandemic: scoping review Tolu, Lemi Belay Feyissa, Garumma Tolu Jeldu, Wondimu Gudu BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Policymakers and health professionals prefer to use summarized evidence of practice recommendations. The aim of this scoping review is therefore to identify available guidelines, consensus statements, the standard of practice, and practice recommendations on reproductive health service provision during the COVID-19 pandemics. METHODS: We searched guideline databases and websites of professional associations and international organizations working on sexual and reproductive health. We looked for practice recommendations on sexual reproductive health services (SRH) during COVID-19 pandemics. Additionally, we searched: MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Google Scholar. Data extraction was done by two independent reviewers using a customized tool that was developed to record the key information of the source that’s relevant to the review question. The difference between the two authors on data extraction was resolved by discussion. RESULTS: A total of 21 records were included in the review. Identified recommendations were classified into thematic areas. The records addressed approaches to antenatal care, labour and delivery, postnatal care, safe abortion, contraception, gender-based violence, and artificial reproduction. CONCLUSIONS: There were consistent consensus statements and recommendations that there should be access to sexual and reproductive health services like antenatal care (ANC), postnatal care (PNC), contraception service, safe abortion care, and clinical management of rape survivors during the COVID-19 pandemics with the concerted effort of service re-organization. The practice recommendations focus on innovative ways of service provision to minimize patient and staff exposure to COVID-19 as well as alleviate the burden on the health care system. These include utilizing telemedicine and community/home-based care or self-care. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-10346-2. BioMed Central 2021-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7856605/ /pubmed/33536001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10346-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tolu, Lemi Belay Feyissa, Garumma Tolu Jeldu, Wondimu Gudu Guidelines and best practice recommendations on reproductive health services provision amid COVID-19 pandemic: scoping review |
title | Guidelines and best practice recommendations on reproductive health services provision amid COVID-19 pandemic: scoping review |
title_full | Guidelines and best practice recommendations on reproductive health services provision amid COVID-19 pandemic: scoping review |
title_fullStr | Guidelines and best practice recommendations on reproductive health services provision amid COVID-19 pandemic: scoping review |
title_full_unstemmed | Guidelines and best practice recommendations on reproductive health services provision amid COVID-19 pandemic: scoping review |
title_short | Guidelines and best practice recommendations on reproductive health services provision amid COVID-19 pandemic: scoping review |
title_sort | guidelines and best practice recommendations on reproductive health services provision amid covid-19 pandemic: scoping review |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7856605/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33536001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10346-2 |
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