WHO Labor Care Guide as the next generation partogram: Revolutionising the quality of care during labor
Malitha Patabendige, Denagamage Jayamini Wickramasooriya, Don Dasanayake
Abstract
The majority of the global burden of preventable maternal and neonatal deaths occur in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently launched a novel alternative tool, the WHO Labor Care Guide (LCG) to monitor mother and baby during labor. This is a timely need as the traditional WHO partogram failed to show any significant clinical benefit 2 . As published by Vogel et al. In their mixed-methods study, aspects pertaining to utility, acceptability, anticipated challenges and barriers have been discussed 3 . Its integration of items to promote and monitor positive birth experience is a worthwhile effort. More importantly it also covers the monitoring of the quality of care.