Table 1 Top 15 guidance priority questions (Overall, WHO and MOH rankings).
From: Prioritizing WHO normative work on maternal and perinatal health: a multicountry survey
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Overall ranking n = 300 | Overall SCORE | QUESTION |
WHO ranking n = 54 |
MOH Ranking n = 56 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8.37 | Early neonatal interventions for treatment of asphyxia (e.g. resuscitation) | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 8.33 | PPH treatment in facilities | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | 8.25 | Strategies to increase contraceptive use after abortion | 14 | 21 |
| 4 | 8.24 | Pre-eclampsia treatment interventions (e.g. magnesium sulfate, antihypertensives, others) | 2 | 10 |
| 5 | 8.22 | Eclampsia treatment interventions | 3 | 13 |
| 6 | 8.22 | PPH prevention in facilities | 11 | 15 |
| 7 | 8.19 | Guideline dissemination and implementation strategies | 12 | 2 |
| 8 | 8.19 | Timing of delivery (labour initiation, early-onset severe disease) | 7 | 16 |
| 9 | 8.18 | Strategies to ensure access to prompt treatment for complications of spontaneous and unsafe abortion | 6 | 20 |
| 10 | 8.07 | Effects of using clinical guidelines/care pathways | 10 | 1 |
| 11 | 8.07 | Strategies to increase the large scale implementation (scaling up) of effective practices at the state or country level | 5 | 18 |
| 12 | 8.07 | Interventions for increasing the proportion of health professionals practicing in rural and other underserved areas | 8 | 27 |
| 13 | 8.04 | Interventions to improve referrals from primary to secondary level health care | 9 | 9 |
| 14 | 8.03 | Strategies for integrating primary health services at the point of delivery in low and middle income countries (LMIC) | 25 | 19 |
| 15 | 8.02 | Prevention of preterm birth | 22 | 11 |