Does the safe childbirth checklist (SCC) program save newborn lives? Evidence from a realistic quasi-experimental study, Rajasthan, India

Abstract Background The WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) is a facility-based reminder tool focusing on essential care to improve quality of intrapartum care. We aimed to assess the impact of an intervention package using the SCC tool on facility-based stillbirths (SBs) and very early neonatal dea...

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Main Authors: Beena Varghese, Andrew Copas, Shwetanjali Kumari, Souvik Bandyopadhyay, Jigyasa Sharma, Somen Saha, Vikas Yadav, Somesh Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-03-01
Series:Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40748-019-0098-4