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. 2025 Aug 9:18:11786329251366920.
doi: 10.1177/11786329251366920. eCollection 2025.

Comment on "Healthcare-Seeking Behaviour for Obstetric Complications in Ethiopia: A Multilevel Mixed-Effect Analysis"

Rachana Mehta  1 , Ranjana Sah  2
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Comment on "Healthcare-Seeking Behaviour for Obstetric Complications in Ethiopia: A Multilevel Mixed-Effect Analysis"

Rachana Mehta et al. Health Serv Insights. .

Abstract

This commentary addresses methodological and interpretive limitations in Geremew et al.'s study on healthcare-seeking behaviour for obstetric complications in Ethiopia, emphasizing the need for clinically validated definitions, analytical exploration of variable interactions, inclusion of all obstetric events, and facility-level cross-validation to strengthen the policy relevance and accuracy of the findings.

Keywords: antenatal care; community norms; healthcare-seeking behaviour; maternal morbidity; obstetric complications.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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