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Improving Adherence to Essential Birth Practices Using the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist With Peer Coaching: Experience From 60 Public Health Facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India

Megan Marx Delaney, Pinki Maji, Tapan Kalita, Nabihah Kara, Darpan Rana, Krishan Kumar, Jenny Masoinneuve, Simon Cousens, Atul A Gawande, Vishwajeet Kumar, Bhala Kodkany, Narender Sharma, Rajiv Saurastri, Vinay Pratap Singh, Lisa R Hirschhorn, Katherine EA Semrau and Rebecca Firestone
Global Health: Science and Practice June 2017, 5(2):217-231; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00410
Megan Marx Delaney
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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Pinki Maji
bPopulation Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Tapan Kalita
bPopulation Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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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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Darpan Rana
bPopulation Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Krishan Kumar
bPopulation Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Jenny Masoinneuve
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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Simon Cousens
cLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
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Atul A Gawande
aAriadne Labs, a Joint Center between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
dDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
eDepartment of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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Vishwajeet Kumar
fCommunity Empowerment Lab, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Bhala Kodkany
gJawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Karnataka, India.
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Narender Sharma
bPopulation Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Rajiv Saurastri
bPopulation Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Vinay Pratap Singh
bPopulation Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Lisa R Hirschhorn
aAriadne Labs, a Joint Center between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
hFeinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Katherine EA Semrau
aAriadne Labs, a Joint Center between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
iDepartment of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
jDivision of Global Health Equity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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Rebecca Firestone
kPopulation Services International, Washington, DC, USA.
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  • For correspondence: rfirestone@post.harvard.edu

Supplements

SUPPLEMENT 1. Characteristics of Intervention Facilities (N=60), Coaching Visits, and Childbirth Quality Coordinators (CQCs), Uttar Pradesh, India, December 2014 to September 2016

SUPPLEMENT 2. Adherence of Birth Attendants to 43 Essential Birth Practices Among 5,971 Deliveries, Documented by Coaches in 60 Intervention Facilities Across the 8-Month BetterBirth Intervention, Uttar Pradesh, India

SUPPLEMENT 3. Adherence of Birth Attendants to Essential Birth Practices, Documented by Independent Observers Versus Coaches in 15 Intervention Facilities After 2 Months of Receiving the BetterBirth Intervention, Uttar Pradesh, India

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