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Introduction One of the important areas for the use of computers in perinatal medicine is in the countrywide analysis of perinatal care. The objective would be to use the results to prepare an optimal strategy in order to achieve further improvement in perinatal care. Besides its use for research and clinical work the computer laboratory of our Institute provides national perinatal surveillance and performs a detailed annual analysis of perinatal care in the Czech Socialist Republic (CSR). CSR, a country with 10 million inhabitants is one part of Czechoslovakia which has a total of 15 millions inhabitants, and is divided into 8 provinces. The ratio of obstetricians who provide complete antenatal and intranatal care and of neonatologists who take care of the newborns to the total population is similar in each of the 8 provinces. There is also a similar ratio of obstetric and neonatal beds to the population of each province. Of the pregnant women all have antenatal care and 100% of deliveries take place in the labour suites of district, regional and university hospitals. 2 Results of the analysis countrywide average of the fetal death rate (LFDR) of 4.2/1000 is one of the lowest in the
Journal of Perinatal Medicine – de Gruyter
Published: Jan 1, 1988
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