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Table 1 Assessment index of the adequacy of prenatal care use in the Dutch primary care context (A.W. Boerleider and E.I. Feijen-de Jong)

From: Determinants of use of care provided by complementary and alternative health care practitioners to pregnant women in primary midwifery care: a prospective cohort study

Duration of gestation (completed weeks and days of pregnancy, respectively)

Initiation of care

Number of visits

Kotelchuck Index

0-11+61

≤11+6

≥3

4

  

1–2

3

   

2

  

0

1

12-26+6

≤11+6

≥6

4

Ideally 3.75 visits1

 

3–5

3

  

2

2

  

≤1

1

 

≥12+0

 

1

27-36+6

 

≥10

4

Ideally 7.5 visits1

 

6–9

3

  

4–5

2

  

≤3

1

 

≥12+0

 

1

37-37+6

≤11+6

≥13

4

Ideally 11 visits1

 

10–12

3

  

6–9

2

  

≤5

1

 

≥12+0

 

1

38-38+6

≤11+6

≥14

4

Ideally 12 visits1

 

10–13

3

  

6–9

2

  

≤5

1

 

≥12+0

 

1

39-39+6

≤11+6

≥15

4

Ideally 13 visits1

 

11–14

3

  

7–10

2

  

≤6

1

 

≥12+0

 

1

40-40+6

≤11+6

≥16

4

Ideally 14 visits1

 

12–15

3

  

7–11

2

  

≤6

1

 

≥12+0

 

1

41-41+6

≤11+6

≥17

4

Ideally 15 visits1

 

12–16

3

  

8–11

2

  

≤7

1

 

≥12+0

 

1

  1. 1. Inadequate (received less than 50 % of expected visits)
  2. 2. Intermediate (50–79 %)
  3. 3. Adequate (80–109 %)
  4. 4. Adequate Plus (110 % and more)
  5. 1According to the guidelines of the Royal Dutch Organization of Midwives