TY - JOUR AU - Bekele, Bayu Begashaw AU - Dadi, Tegene Legese AU - Tesfaye, Thomas PY - 2019 DA - 2019/01/14 TI - The significant association between maternity waiting homes utilization and perinatal mortality in Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 13 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - A proper uptake of maternity waiting homes (MWHs) is important to improve maternal and child health (MCH). The aim of this review is to generate the best existing evidences concerning the MWHs utilization and its impact on perinatal mortality (PNM) among pregnant mothers in Africa. Both relevant quantitative and qualitative studies, investigated and reported from databases were explored. Meta-analysis of the studies was displayed by tables and forest plots. The Stata version 14 was used with the fixed effect model and 95% confidence interval. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4056-z DO - 10.1186/s13104-019-4056-z ID - Bekele2019 ER -