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Official URL: http://smart.who.int/dak-smbp/ImplementationGuide/smart.who.int.dak-smbp				Version: 1.0.1
Draft as of 2025-07-01				Computable Name: DAKSmbp

Summary

This WHO digital adaptation kit focuses on self-monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy and aims to provide a common language across various audiences – health programme managers, software developers, and implementers of digital systems – to ensure a common understanding of the appropriate health information content requirements within a defined health programme area, as a mechanism to catalyse the effective use of these digital systems.

This DAK also complements the health worker-facing Digital adaptation kit for antenatal care: operational requirements for implementing WHO recommendations in digital systems (ANC DAK), in which self-care interventions such as SMBP may be integrated.

L1 Narrative guidelines

WHO recommends self-care interventions within a safe, supportive and enabling environment with appropriate links to the health system. This first edition of the DAK on self-care interventions focuses on self-monitoring blood pressure in pregnancy in which WHO suggests making the self-monitoring of blood pressure during pregnancy available as an additional option to clinic blood pressure monitoring by health workers during antenatal contacts, among individuals with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

L2 Operational guidelines

The L2 self-monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy Digital adaptation kit publications and implementations tools can be found here:

• Published DAK Document

• Implementation tools:

  • Link to the business processes files

  • Link to core data dictionary

  • Link to decision-support logic

  • Link to functional and non functional requirements

L3 Machine readable guidelines

The L3 FHIR Implementation Guide for the self-monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy SMART Guidelines are not yet available. Links will be published here as soon as they're available.

L4 Executable guidelines

Reference implementations representing the L4 layer for the self-monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy SMART Guidelines are not yet available. Links will be published here as soon as they're available.

L5 Dynamic guidelines

Content representing the L5 layer for the self-monitoring of blood pressure in pregnancy SMART Guidelines are not yet available. Links will be published here as soon as they're available.

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Disclaimer

The specification herewith documented is a demo working specification and may not be used for any implementation purposes. This draft is provided without warranty of completeness or consistency and the official publication supersedes this draft. No liability can be inferred from the use or misuse of this specification or its consequences.