Table 5.
Providers´ replies to theoretical clinical situations
| |
El Salvador (N=109) |
Mexico (N=59) |
Ecuador (N=64) |
Uruguay (N=121) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/N | (%) | n/N | (%) | n/N | (%) | n/N | (%) | ||
|
CLI NICAL SITUATION 1 |
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| Prescribe antenatal corticosteroids to a healthy women in a gestational age of 27 weeks who is hospitalized due to TPL |
81/108 |
(75.0) |
24/51 |
(47.1) |
45/61 |
(73.8) |
102/105 |
(97.1) |
|
| The woman is discharged after 72 hs. The TPL is arrested. ¿Which is the indication? |
A doses every month |
5/105 |
(4.8) |
5/41 |
(12.2) |
0/56 |
(0.0) |
3/105 |
(2.9) |
| A doses every two weeks |
1/105 |
(1.0) |
1/41 |
(2.4) |
2/56 |
(3.6) |
1/105 |
(1.0) |
|
| A doses every week |
24/105 |
(22.9) |
10/41 |
(24.4) |
8/56 |
(14.3) |
8/105 |
(7.6) |
|
| No doses |
68/105 |
(64.8) |
0/41 |
(0.0) |
40/56 |
(71.4) |
71/105 |
(67.6) |
|
| Other |
7/105 |
(6.7) |
25/41 |
(61.0) |
6/56 |
(10.7) |
22/105 |
(21.0) |
|
| Prescribe antenatal corticosteroids for the same patient if she is hospitalized again due to TPL at the gestational age of 32 weeks |
42/107 |
(39.3) |
|
|
25/60 |
(41.7) |
50/106 |
(47.2) |
|
|
CLI NICAL SITUATION 2 |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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| Prescribe antenatal corticosteroids to a healthy women with a gestational age of 25 weeks who is hospitalized due to a rupture of membranes of 4 hours of evolution, without cervical dilatation and signs of infection |
48/108 |
(44.4) |
21/48 |
(43.8) |
27/61 |
(44.3) |
82/105 |
(78.1) |
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CLINICAL SITUATION 3 | |||||||||
| Prescribe antenatal corticosteroids to a healthy woman with two previous preterm births at 30 and 32 weeks and with the actual pregnancy with no complications | 82/108 | (75.9) | 25/47 | (53.2) | 27/61 | (44.3) | 71/107 | (66.4) | |