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Assessing the effectiveness of decentralised antenatal ultrasound in a primary health care clinic compared with a hospital-based service in rural South Africa: an interrupted time series analysis

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-025-08419-w

Published Online: 2025-11-21

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Westwood, Christopher James https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6782-4210
Miller, Andrew Charles https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5478-4240
Porter, James Dudley https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4476-5323
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Discovery Foundation Rural Fellowship Grant (136670)
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Article History

Received: 30 July 2025

Accepted: 22 October 2025

First Online: 21 November 2025

Declarations

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: Ethical approval for the study was obtained from Walter Sisulu University Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee (024/2024) and the Eastern Cape Health Research Committee (EC_202406_003).The need for informed consent from individual participants was waived due to the retrospective and anonymised nature of the data collected.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.

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