Maternity Waiting Home Interventions as a Strategy for Improving Birth Outcomes: A Scoping Review and Meta-Analysis.

There is some indication that MWHs are an effective strategy for reducing maternal and perinatal mortality in resource-limited settings. However, our analysis was constrained by the observational design of most prior MWH studies. More rigorous MWH evaluations, ideally in the form of randomized-control trials, are needed to better determine MWH effectiveness.