BACKGROUND Georgia is the first developing country in the world to have established a
national digital, medical birth registry. The Georgia Birth Registry was officially inaugurated …

Objective: To establish a medical birth registry intended to serve clinical, administrative and
research purposes. Methods: Starting in July 2000, every birth at Kilimanjaro Christian …

Background The registration and certification of births has a wide array of individual and
societal benefits. While near-universal in some parts of the world, birth registration is less …

Background The Danish Medical Birth Registry (MBR) was established in 1968 and has
been computerized since 1973. The primary purpose of the registration is to monitor the …

Pregnancy-related factors are important for short-and long-term health in mothers and
offspring. The nationwide population-based Swedish Medical Birth Register (MBR) was …

Background Birth registry data are universally collected, generating large administrative
datasets. However, these data are typically not used for quality improvement (QI) initiatives …

Background Linkage between routinely collected hospital birth and other records offers the
potential for epidemiological and public health research by developing population-level birth …

Background Data from hospital-based registers and medical records offer valuable sources
of information for clinical and epidemiological research purposes. However, conducting high …

OBJECTIVE: To characterize prenatal and delivery care in an urban African setting.
METHODS: The Zambia Electronic Perinatal Record System (ZEPRS) was implemented to …

Introduction Accurate data on maternal mortality are essential for assessing progress
towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The aim of the study was to determine the …