Table 5 Providers´ replies to theoretical clinical situations
El Salvador (N=109) | Mexico (N=59) | Ecuador (N=64) | Uruguay (N=121) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n/N | (%) | n/N | (%) | n/N | (%) | n/N | (%) | ||
CLI NICAL SITUATION 1 | |||||||||
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 | |||||||||
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) | |
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) | |