Improving Quality of Care for Maternal and Newborn Health: Prospective Pilot Study of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program

• Jonathan M. Spector ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan M. Spector, Priya Agrawal

  * E-mail: jmspector@partners.org

  Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Priya Agrawal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan M. Spector, Priya Agrawal

  Affiliation Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Bhala Kodkany,

  Affiliation Women's and Children's Health Research Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Karnataka, India

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• Stuart Lipsitz,

  Affiliation Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Angela Lashoher,

  Affiliation Department of Patient Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Gerald Dziekan,

  Affiliation Department of Patient Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Rajiv Bahl,

  Affiliation Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Mario Merialdi,

  Affiliation Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Matthews Mathai,

  Affiliation Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Claire Lemer,

  Affiliation London Deanery, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, Enfield, United Kingdom

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• Atul Gawande

  Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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