"Quality of prenatal and maternal care: bridging the know-do gap" (QUALMAT study): an electronic clinical decision support system for rural Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Published in BMC Med Inform Decis Mak on April 10, 2013

Authors

Antje Blank, Helen Prytherch, Jens Kaltschmidt, Andreas Krings, Felix Sukums, Nathan Mensah, Alphonse Zakane, Svetla Loukanova, Lars L Gustafsson, Rainer Sauerborn, Walter E Haefeli

Associated clinical trials:

Health Care Intervention Research- Improving Pre-natal and Maternal Care (QUALMAT) | NCT01409824

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