Evidence-led obstetric care: strategies to change practice and policy

Abstract

This report is based on a meeting entitled “The RHL and beyond: influencing policy and changing practice”, held in Geneva on 28–30 January 2004 under the auspices of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research of the World Health Organization. The meeting focused on ways of promoting evidence-based care in the area of pregnancy and childbirth, using the WHO Reproductive Health Library (RHL) as a source of systematic review evidence. Researchers and clinicians attending this meeting analysed various approaches and projects which had been implemented to promote the RHL as a tool for policy-making and practice change. The meeting reviewed the lessons learnt from such experiences and strove to determine how they could be used to inform future strategy