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The BetterBirth Program: Pursuing Effective Adoption and Sustained Use of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Through Coaching-Based Implementation in Uttar Pradesh, India

Nabihah Kara, Rebecca Firestone, Tapan Kalita, Atul A Gawande, Vishwajeet Kumar, Bhala Kodkany, Rajiv Saurastri, Vinay Pratap Singh, Pinki Maji, Ami Karlage, Lisa R Hirschhorn and Katherine EA Semrau on behalf of the BetterBirth Trial Group
Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):232-243; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00411
Nabihah Kara
aAriadne Labs, a Joint Center between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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Rebecca Firestone
bPopulation Services International, Washington, DC, USA.
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Tapan Kalita
cPopulation Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Atul A Gawande
dAriadne Labs, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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Vishwajeet Kumar
eCommunity Empowerment Lab, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Bhala Kodkany
fJawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum, Karnataka, India.
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Rajiv Saurastri
cPopulation Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Vinay Pratap Singh
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Pinki Maji
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Ami Karlage
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Lisa R Hirschhorn
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Katherine EA Semrau
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vol. 5 no. 2 232-243
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00411
PubMed 
28655801

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2169-575X
History 
  • Received: December 14, 2016
  • Accepted: May 25, 2017
  • Published online June 27, 2017.

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© Kara et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00411

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  1. Nabihah Karaa,
  2. Rebecca Firestoneb,
  3. Tapan Kalitac,
  4. Atul A Gawanded,
  5. Vishwajeet Kumare,
  6. Bhala Kodkanyf,
  7. Rajiv Saurastric,
  8. Vinay Pratap Singhc,
  9. Pinki Majic,
  10. Ami Karlagea,
  11. Lisa R Hirschhorng,*,
  12. Katherine EA Semrauh,*⇑
  13. on behalf of the BetterBirth Trial Group†
  1. aAriadne Labs, a Joint Center between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
  2. bPopulation Services International, Washington, DC, USA.
  3. cPopulation Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  4. dAriadne Labs, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
  5. eCommunity Empowerment Lab, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  6. fJawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum, Karnataka, India.
  7. gAriadne Labs, Boston, MA, USA; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
  8. hAriadne Labs, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Global Health Equity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
  1. Correspondence to Katherine EA Semrau (ksemrau{at}ariadnelabs.org).
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Nabihah Kara, Rebecca Firestone, Tapan Kalita, Atul A Gawande, Vishwajeet Kumar, Bhala Kodkany, Rajiv Saurastri, Vinay Pratap Singh, Pinki Maji, Ami Karlage, Lisa R Hirschhorn, Katherine EA Semrau
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