Prepregnancy weight is self-reported at first prenatal visit and abstracted from prenatal record.
We determined accurate gestational age at delivery from the prenatal record and early ultrasounds.
Consent included review of the prenatal record and medical records at delivery.
What key contextual factors influence the uptake of research evidence during the prenatal record revision process?
Interviews will address potential internal and external contextual factors as well as different types and sources of evidence that may have contributed to decisions around prenatal record content made during the province's most recent prenatal record revision.
This multiphase project aimed to identify key contextual factors influencing decision-making and evidence use among Canadian prenatal record committees (PRCs), and formulate recommendations for the prenatal record review process in Canada.
Each province and territory in Canada has its own unique prenatal record, except for Yukon Territory (which uses British Columbia's prenatal record forms); and New Brunswick (where prenatal records are developed at the regional level).
Phase 1 comprised descriptive key informant interviews with prenatal record committee (PRC) leaders across 10 Canadian jurisdictions.
The PH/RCPs typically conducted prenatal record reviews as a funded deliverable for their Ministry of Health.
"…a committee themselves can be sold on the evidence and the requirement for information on the prenatal record.
These data were abstracted from the prenatal record as part of the hospital discharge abstract data system.
