Nearly, all specialists in the study reported conducting home visits, but frequency of home visiting and content of visits varied across specialist reports.
Frequency of visits to provider homes varied across specialists and across roles, and content of visits also varied depending on individual provider needs as the following specialists elaborated in their open-ended responses to the survey question about frequency of visits: "I work with each individual as they need it which could be a one-time visit to something that is ongoing for months".
Although nearly all specialists in this study reported conducting home visits with providers, variation in frequency of visits as well as content of visits were reported including monitoring, modeling caregiving practices, delivering materials and equipment, and offering professional development and support to providers.
Additional data regarding health care consumption (exact date and content of visits and interventions) are obtained from medical records.
For all patients in our study, the follow-up information was retrieved actively from hospital documents, including date and content of visits, date of mammography.
Unlike an explanatory clinical trial with a defined protocol, in this pragmatic observational study we left the number and timing of visits, as well as the specific content of visits to the discretion of the ANC providers.
To validate the content of visits coded as well child care, twenty charts were reviewed (AVB) for inclusion of growth and developmental surveillance as well as review of immunization status and found to be appropriately coded.
Follow-up time and the number and content of visits to the GP after pregnancy were determined, recording the frequency and timing of blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose measurements.
The second is from an objective focus: we will review the clinical charts to confirm that FPs have included the label "predictD" on the problem list and we will also collect the number and content of visits related to the intervention.
The women were interviewed about the number of ANC visits, time for the first visit, service content of ANC visits and cost for ANC utilization.
National ANC recommendations vary between countries regarding number of visits, timing of visits and service contents of visits.
