Effects of the World Health Organization Safe Childbirth Checklist on Quality of Care and Birth Outcomes in Aceh, Indonesia: A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

To address major causes of perinatal and maternal mortality, the World Health Organization developed the Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC), which to our knowledge has been rigorously evaluated only in combination with high-intensity coaching.

Objective

To evaluate the effect of the SCC with medium-intensity coaching on health care workers' performance of essential birth practices.

Design, setting, and participants

This cluster randomized clinical trial without blinding included 32 hospitals and community health centers in the province of Aceh, Indonesia (a medium-resource setting) that met the criterion of providing at least basic emergency obstetric and newborn care. Baseline data were collected from August to October 2016, and outcomes were measured from Ma

SUBMITTER: Kaplan LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8642783 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature