Under the pharmacist protocol, women seeking birth control are no longer required to endure yearly pelvic exams or the wait times associated with them which aligns with the medical consensus advising against annual exams for healthy women.
As per the current protocol, women are tested for HIV only once during pregnancy.
In the above protocol, women with treated ovarian cancer who were in complete remission were followed up with clinical review including CA-125 measurements.
As per the national protocol, women were also counselled to encourage their partners to get tested for HIV and to opt for an institutional delivery.
Subjects were eligible for inclusion if they were healthy and able to comply with the booster protocol; women of child-bearing potential had to practice adequate contraception for 30 days before each vaccination and for two months after vaccination.
In the IDS protocol, women are treated with 3 cycles of chemotherapy, re-evaluated with computed tomography (CT), undergo surgery and then complete their chemotherapy with 3 or more further cycles of treatment.
As a part of the standardized protocol, women were instructed to test their urine for pregnancy on the day of expected menses, given that women's menstrual cycles differ in length, and then again 1 week later regardless of the results of the first test.
In the original protocol women who had a history of spontaneous preterm birth or who had threatened preterm birth in the current pregnancy were excluded, however following the Safety Committee review of the first 100 births, which found no evidence of contractions following expressing, and because no woman is randomised prior to 36 weeks gestation, this exclusion criterion was removed.
There is considerable variability in both the literature and the instruments, each of which studies OC quality from its own angle, focusing on specific elements: material resources, treatment protocols, women's satisfaction with services, etc.
The continuity of care was implemented according to the following protocol: The woman was invited to the delivery ward for a first meeting with the selected midwife.
