Figure 1.
* includes: policy commentaries, policy analysis, clinical guidelines, best practice, commentaries/news/editorials, service audit and review, reporting analysis, patient satisfaction study, HIV+ samples, healthcare professional attitudes and practices surveys.
Table 1.
Study characteristics.
Figure 2.
Prevalence of adverse pregnancy outcomes among all syphilis-positive women and by subgroup (tested or treated before the third trimester or during the third trimester).
ANC, ante-natal care. All adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) included: low birth weight, stillbirth, and preterm birth for Watson-Jones 2002; low birth weight, preterm birth, intrauterine death for Carles 2008; congenital syphilis, foetal death, and neonatal death for Zhu 2010.
Figure 3.
Odds ratios – adverse outcomes of women tested or treated during the third trimester compared to those women tested or treated before the third trimester (reference).
Ref, reference; wks, weeks; d, days.
Figure 4.
Ref, reference; wks, weeks; d, days. All adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) included: low birth weight, stillbirth, and preterm birth for Watson-Jones 2002; low birth weight, preterm birth, intrauterine death for Carles 2008; congenital syphilis, foetal death, and neonatal death for Zhu 2010.