BetterBirth: A Trial of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program (NCT02148952) | Clinical Trial Compass
CompletedNot Applicable
BetterBirth: A Trial of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program
India157,689 participantsStarted 2014-11
Plain-language summary
The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of a checklist-based childbirth safety program (the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program) on reduction of severe maternal, fetal, and newborn harm in institutional deliveries in north India.
Who can participate
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Inclusion Criteria:
* For measuring outcomes, inclusion criteria are all mothers admitted to a study site for childbirth and newborn babies who are to be followed-up. In case a mother or baby from an enrolled site is referred out to another facility (before or after delivery) the mother-baby dyad will be included in the study and the outcome will be allocated to the referring facility
* For a smaller subset of birth events (approximately 4,650 deliveries total), health worker practices will be observed to measure the impact of the SCC program on delivery of essential practices, as a secondary outcome. A convenience sample of women who agree to observation and their babies cared for by the health workers around the time of childbirth at the facility during data collectors' duty hours will be included in this component of the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Mothers who have been referred into the facility by an inter-facility transfer.
* Mothers being managed for abortion.
* Mothers who refuse consent for follow-up
What they're measuring
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Percentage of Participants With Composite Measure of Perinatal Death, Maternal Death, or Maternal Severe Complications Within 7 Days