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Murthy S, Yan SD, Alam S, Kumar A, Rangarajan A, Sawant M, Sulaiman H, Yadav BP, Singh Pathani T, Kumar H G A, Kak S, A M V, Kaur B, N R, Mishra A, Elliott E, Delaney MM, Semrau KEA. Improving neonatal health with family-centered, early postnatal care: A quasi-experimental study in India. PLOS Glob Public Health 2023; 3:e0001240. [PMID: 37228043 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Despite the global decline, neonatal mortality rates (NMR) remain high in India. Family members are often responsible for the postpartum care of neonates and mothers. Yet, low health literacy and varied beliefs can lead to poor health outcomes. Postpartum education for family caregivers, may improve the adoption of evidence-based neonatal care and health outcomes. The Care Companion Program (CCP) is a hospital-based, pre-discharge health training session where nurses teach key healthy behaviors to mothers and family members, including skills and an opportunity to practice them in the hospital. We conducted a quasi-experimental study to assess the effect of the CCP sessions on mortality outcomes among families seeking care in 28 public tertiary facilities across 4 Indian states. Neonatal mortality outcomes were reported post-discharge, collected via phone surveys at four weeks postpartum, between October 2018 to February 2020. Risk ratios (RR), adjusting for hospital-level clustering, were calculated by comparing mortality rates before and after CCP implementation. A total of 46,428 families participated in the pre-intervention group and 87,305 in the post-intervention group; 76% of families completed the phone survey. Among the 33,599 newborns born before the CCP implementation, there were 1386 deaths (NMR: 41.3 deaths per 1000 live births). After the intervention began, there were 2021 deaths out of 60,078 newborns born (crude NMR: 33.6 deaths per 1000 live births, RR = 0.82, 95% CI: 0.76, 0.87; cluster-adjusted RR = 0.82, 95% CI: 0.71, 0.94). There may be a substantial benefit to family-centered education in the early postnatal period to reduce neonatal mortality.
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- Noora Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Noora Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Data Science, ShriSankhyam Analytics and Research LLP, New Delhi, India
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- Noora Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Aurora Health Innovations, Bengaluru, India
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- Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Punjab, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, India
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- Directorate of Public Health & Family Welfare, National Health Mission, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Noora Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Yan SD, S D S, Desai M, Delaney MM, Bobanski L, Rajkumar N, Murthy S, Henrich N. Qualitative assessment of family caregiver-centered neonatal education program in Karnataka, India. PLOS Glob Public Health 2023; 3:e0000524. [PMID: 36962764 PMCID: PMC10022017 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Accepted: 01/12/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Globally 2.5 million newborns die every year before they reach the age of one month; the majority of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Among other factors, inadequate knowledge and skills to take care of newborns contribute to these deaths. To fill this gap, training patients and family members on the behaviors needed to improve essential newborn care practices at home is a promising opportunity. One program that aims to do this is the Care Companion Program (CCP) which provides in-hospital, skills-based training on care of mothers and newborns to families. This study uses semi-structured interviews to understand how and why knowledge and behaviors of maternal and newborn care behaviors change (or don't change) as a result of CCP sessions and participants' perception of the impact of CCP on change. Interviews focused on knowledge and behaviors around key neonatal and newborn topics and health seeking behaviors for health complications. Forty-two in-depth interviews were conducted among families with recently-delivered babies at their homes from four districts in Karnataka, India. Respondents have a positive perception about CCP, found training useful and appreciated other family members presence during the training. CCP increased knowledge and awareness and provided critical details to key behaviors like breastfeeding. Respondents were more likely to be receptive toward details on already known topics, like hand washing before touching the baby. Awareness increased on newly learned behaviors, like skin-to-skin care, which don't conflict with cultural norms. The CCP did not influence nonrestrictive maternal diet as much, which cultural norms heavily influence. In-hospital family caregiver education programs, like CCP, can positively influence key neonatal behaviors by imparting knowledge and key skills. However, the effect is not universal across health behaviors.
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- Shirley D Yan
- Noora Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Aurora Health Innovations, Bengaluru, India
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Services, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Delaney MM, Usmanova G, Nair TS, Neergheen VL, Miller K, Fishman E, Bajpai N, Memon P, Bobanski L, Singh D, Srivastava VK, Divakar H, Pai H, Semrau KEA, Pallipamula SP. Does Quality Certification Work? An Assessment of Manyata, a Childbirth Quality Program in India's Private Sector. Glob Health Sci Pract 2022; 10:GHSP-D-22-00093. [PMID: 36562433 PMCID: PMC9771457 DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-22-00093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND In India, more than 60% of hospital beds are in private facilities, yet several studies have observed suboptimal quality of care in private facilities. We aimed to understand the role of Manyata, a quality improvement initiative in private facilities focused on mentorship and clinical standards, to improve the knowledge and skills of health care providers, their adherence to key childbirth-related clinical practices, and health outcomes for women and newborns. METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of Manyata program data collected from 466 private facilities across 3 states (Jharkhand, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh) in India from October 2016 to February 2019. We calculated means and 95% confidence intervals for knowledge and skills assessment, adherence to facility standards was analyzed by calculating the proportion of facilities passing a given quality standard at baseline and endline, and changes in pregnancy outcomes were assessed with autoregression modeling. RESULTS From assessments conducted before and after training among providers in Manyata, we observed a significant increase in average knowledge score (6.3 vs. 13.2 of 20) and skill score (8.0 vs. 34.3 of 40). Overall, a significant increase occurred in adherence to clinical standards between baseline and endline assessments (29% vs. 93%). The standards with the greatest improvements were identification and management of eclampsia/preeclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, and neonatal resuscitation. There were no significant changes over time in absolute rate of reported complications; however, referral rates from private facilities for preeclampsia and newborn sepsis identification and management declined. CONCLUSION Our analysis indicates private facilities' adherence to quality standards and nurses' childbirth knowledge and practical skills increased during Manyata. Additional efforts are needed to ensure high-quality care during cesarean deliveries at private facilities. Future studies with rigorous design are required to evaluate the impact of this quality improvement initiative in improving pregnancy outcomes.
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- Megan Marx Delaney
- Ariadne Labs, a joint center of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Correspondence to Megan Marx Delaney ()
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- Ariadne Labs, a joint center of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, a joint center of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, a joint center of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, a joint center of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Manyata Steering Committee, Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India, Mumbai, India
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- Manyata Steering Committee, Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India, Mumbai, India
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- Ariadne Labs, a joint center of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Ariadne Labs, a joint center of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Lofgren KT, Bobanski L, Tuller DE, Singh VP, Marx Delaney M, Jurczak A, Ragavan M, Kalita T, Karlage A, Resch SC, Semrau KEA. Estimating maternity ward birth attendant time use in India: a microcosting study. BMJ Open 2022; 12:e054164. [PMID: 35131826 PMCID: PMC8823136 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Despite global concern over the quality of maternal care, little is known about the time requirements to complete the essential birth practices. Using three microcosting data collection methods within the BetterBirth trial, we aimed to assess time use and the specific time requirements to incorporate the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist into clinical practice. SETTING We collected detailed survey data on birth attendant time use within the BetterBirth trial in Uttar Pradesh, India. The BetterBirth trial tested whether the peer-coaching-based implementation of the WHO Checklist was effective in improving the quality of facility-based childbirth care. PARTICIPANTS We collected measurements of time to completion for 18 essential birth practices from July 2016 through October 2016 across 10 facilities in five districts (1559 total timed observations). An anonymous survey asked about the impact of the WHO Checklist on birth attendants at every intervention facility (15 facilities, 83 respondents) in the Lucknow hub. Additionally, data collectors visited facilities to conduct a census of patients and birth attendants across 20 facilities in seven districts between June 2016 and November 2016 (six hundred and ten 2-hour facility observations). PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES The primary outcome measure of this study is the per cent of staff time required to complete the essential birth practices included in the WHO Checklist. RESULTS When birth attendants were timed, we found practices were completed rapidly (18 s to 2 min). As the patient load increased, time dedicated to clinical care increased but remained low relative to administrative and downtime. On average, WHO Checklist clinical care accounted for less than 7% of birth attendant time use per hour. CONCLUSIONS We did not find that a coaching-based implementation of the WHO Checklist was a burden on birth attendant's time use. However, questions remain regarding the performance quality of practices and how to accurately capture and interpret idle and break time. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER NCT02148952.
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- Katherine T Lofgren
- Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Population Services International, Lucknow, India
- Community Empowerment Lab, Lucknow, India
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Piramal Swasthya Management and Research Institute, Hyderabad, India
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Tadesse GA, Delaney MM, Akinwande V, Ogallo W, Mershon CH, Semrau KEA, Speakman S. Principled Subpopulation Analysis of the BetterBirth Study and the Impact of WHO's Safe Childbirth Checklist Intervention. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2022; 2022:1042-1051. [PMID: 37128422 PMCID: PMC10148288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Safe Childbirth Checklist as an intervention to improve care and outcomes in maternal and newborn health. The original study reported that the intervention did not significantly improve the outcomes. In this work, we employ a principled data-driven analysis to identify subpopulations with divergent characteristics: 1) vulnerable subgroups with the highest risk of neonatal deaths and 2) subgroups in the intervention arm that benefited from the Checklist intervention with significantly reduced risks of deaths and complications. Results demonstrate that low birth weight represented the most vulnerable group, whereas mother-baby dyads described by normal gestational age at birth, known parity, and unknown number of abortions was found to benefit from the Checklist intervention (OR : 0.70, 95%CI : 0.62-0.79, p < 0.001). Generally, the flexibility of our approach helps to answer subgroup-based queries in the broader global health domain, which also provides further insights to domain experts.
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- Ariadne Labs, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Vesel L, Spigel L, Behera JN, Bellad RM, Das L, Dhaded S, Goudar SS, Guruprasad G, Misra S, Panda S, Shamanur LG, Vernekar SS, Hoffman IF, Mvalo T, Phiri M, Saidi F, Kisenge R, Manji K, Salim N, Somji S, Sudfeld CR, Adair L, Caruso BA, Duggan C, Israel-Ballard K, Lee AC, Martin SL, Mansen KL, North K, Young M, Benotti E, Marx Delaney M, Fishman E, Fleming K, Henrich N, Miller K, Subramanian L, Tuller DE, Semrau KE. Mixed-methods, descriptive and observational cohort study examining feeding and growth patterns among low birthweight infants in India, Malawi and Tanzania: the LIFE study protocol. BMJ Open 2021; 11:e048216. [PMID: 34857554 PMCID: PMC8640640 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2020] [Accepted: 10/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Ending preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 will not be possible without evidence-based strategies addressing the health and care of low birthweight (LBW, <2.5 kg) infants. The majority of LBW infants are born in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and account for more than 60%-80% of newborn deaths. Feeding promotion tailored to meet the nutritional needs of LBW infants in LMICs may serve a crucial role in curbing newborn mortality rates and promoting growth. The Low Birthweight Infant Feeding Exploration (LIFE) study aims to establish foundational knowledge regarding optimal feeding options for LBW infants in low-resource settings throughout infancy. METHODS AND ANALYSIS LIFE is a formative, multisite, observational cohort study involving 12 study facilities in India, Malawi and Tanzania, and using a convergent parallel, mixed-methods design. We assess feeding patterns, growth indicators, morbidity, mortality, child development and health system inputs that facilitate or hinder care and survival of LBW infants. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION This study was approved by 11 ethics committees in India, Malawi, Tanzania and the USA. The results will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications and presentations targeting the global and local research, clinical, programme implementation and policy communities. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBERS NCT04002908 and CTRI/2019/02/017475.
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- Linda Vesel
- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research, Belgaum, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Paediatrics, SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, Orissa, India
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- Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research, Belgaum, Karnataka, India
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- Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research, Belgaum, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Neonatology, JJM Medical College, Davangere, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Paediatrics, SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, Orissa, India
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, City Hospital, Cuttack, Orissa, India
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- Department of Paediatrics, SS Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Davangere, Karnataka, India
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- Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research, Belgaum, Karnataka, India
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- Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina Project Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi
- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina Project Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina Project Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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- Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Center for Nutrition, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition Program, PATH, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health / Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Marx Delaney M, Kumar V, Semrau KE. Authors reply re: Modification of oxytocin use through a coaching-based intervention based on the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist in Uttar Pradesh, India: a secondary analysis of a cluster randomised controlled trial. BJOG 2021; 129:675. [PMID: 34800351 DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.17004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Megan Marx Delaney
- Ariadne Labs, A Joint center of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, A Joint center of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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North K, Marx Delaney M, Bose C, Lee ACC, Vesel L, Adair L, Semrau K. The effect of milk type and fortification on the growth of low-birthweight infants: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Matern Child Nutr 2021; 17:e13176. [PMID: 33733580 PMCID: PMC8189224 DOI: 10.1111/mcn.13176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2020] [Revised: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Approximately 15% of infants worldwide are born with low birthweight (<2500 g). These children are at risk for growth failure. The aim of this umbrella review is to assess the relationship between infant milk type, fortification and growth in low-birthweight infants, with particular focus on low- and lower middle-income countries. We conducted a systematic review in PubMed, CINAHL, Embase and Web of Science comparing infant milk options and growth, grading the strength of evidence based on standard umbrella review criteria. Twenty-six systematic reviews qualified for inclusion. They predominantly focused on infants with very low birthweight (<1500 g) in high-income countries. We found the strongest evidence for (1) the addition of energy and protein fortification to human milk (donor or mother's milk) leading to increased weight gain (mean difference [MD] 1.81 g/kg/day; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.23, 2.40), linear growth (MD 0.18 cm/week; 95% CI 0.10, 0.26) and head growth (MD 0.08 cm/week; 95% CI 0.04, 0.12) and (2) formula compared with donor human milk leading to increased weight gain (MD 2.51 g/kg/day; 95% CI 1.93, 3.08), linear growth (MD 1.21 mm/week; 95% CI 0.77, 1.65) and head growth (MD 0.85 mm/week; 95% CI 0.47, 1.23). We also found evidence of improved growth when protein is added to both human milk and formula. Fat supplementation did not seem to affect growth. More research is needed for infants with birthweight 1500-2500 g in low- and lower middle-income countries.
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- Krysten North
- Department of PediatricsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Ariadne LabsBrigham Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public HealthBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of PediatricsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Department of Pediatric Newborn MedicineBrigham and Women's HospitalBostonMassachusettsUSA
- Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Ariadne LabsBrigham Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public HealthBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of Nutrition, Carolina Population Center, Gillings School of Public HealthUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Ariadne LabsBrigham Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public HealthBostonMassachusettsUSA
- Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMassachusettsUSA
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Semrau KE, Miller KA, Lipsitz S, Fisher-Bowman J, Karlage A, Neville BA, Krasne M, Gass J, Jurczak A, Pratap Singh V, Singh S, Marx Delaney M, Hirschhorn LR, Kodkany B, Kumar V, Gawande AA. Does adherence to evidence-based practices during childbirth prevent perinatal mortality? A post-hoc analysis of 3,274 births in Uttar Pradesh, India. BMJ Glob Health 2021; 5:bmjgh-2019-002268. [PMID: 32928798 PMCID: PMC7490951 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2019] [Revised: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Evidence-based practices that reduce childbirth-related morbidity and mortality are core processes to quality of care. In the BetterBirth trial, a matched-pair, cluster-randomised controlled trial of a coaching-based implementation of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) in Uttar Pradesh, India, we observed a significant increase in adherence to practices, but no reduction in perinatal mortality. METHODS Within the BetterBirth trial, we observed birth attendants in a subset of study sites providing care to labouring women to assess the adherence to individual and groups of practices. We observed care from admission to the facility until 1 hour post partum. We followed observed women/newborns for 7-day perinatal health outcomes. Using this observational data, we conducted a post-hoc, exploratory analysis to understand the relationship of birth attendants' practice adherence to perinatal mortality. FINDINGS Across 30 primary health facilities, we observed 3274 deliveries and obtained 7-day health outcomes. Adherence to individual practices, containing supply preparation and direct provider care, varied widely (0·51 to 99·78%). We recorded 166 perinatal deaths (50·71 per 1000 births), including 56 (17·1 per 1000) stillbirths. Each additional practice performed was significantly associated with reduced odds of perinatal (OR: 0·82, 95% CI: 0·72, 0·93) and early neonatal mortality (OR: 0·78, 95% CI: 0·71, 0·85). Each additional practice as part of direct provider care was associated strongly with reduced odds of perinatal (OR: 0·73, 95% CI: 0·62, 0·86) and early neonatal mortality (OR: 0·67, 95% CI: 0·56, 0·80). No individual practice or single supply preparation was associated with perinatal mortality. INTERPRETATION Adherence to practices on the WHO SCC is associated with reduced mortality, indicating that adherence is a valid indicator of higher quality of care. However, the causal relationships between practices and outcomes are complex. FUNDING Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. TRIAL REGISTRATION DETAILS ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02148952; Universal Trial Number: U1111-1131-5647.
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- Katherine Ea Semrau
- Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA .,Division of Global Health Equity & Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Optum, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Institute for Global Health, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ilinois, United States
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- Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.,Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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Subramanian L, Murthy S, Bogam P, Yan SD, Marx Delaney M, Goodwin CDG, Bobanski L, Rangarajan AS, Bhowmik A, Kashyap S, Ramnarayan N, Hawrusik R, Bell G, Kaur B, Rajkumar N, Mishra A, Alam SS, Semrau KEA. Just-in-time postnatal education programees to improve newborn care practices: needs and opportunities in low-resource settings. BMJ Glob Health 2021; 5:bmjgh-2020-002660. [PMID: 32727842 PMCID: PMC7394013 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Revised: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Worldwide, many newborns die in the first month of life, with most deaths happening in low/middle-income countries (LMICs). Families’ use of evidence-based newborn care practices in the home and timely care-seeking for illness can save newborn lives. Postnatal education is an important investment to improve families’ use of evidence-based newborn care practices, yet there are gaps in the literature on postnatal education programmes that have been evaluated to date. Recent findings from a 13 000+ person survey in 3 states in India show opportunities for improvement in postnatal education for mothers and families and their use of newborn care practices in the home. Our survey data and the literature suggest the need to incorporate the following strategies into future postnatal education programming: implement structured predischarge education with postdischarge reinforcement, using a multipronged teaching approach to reach whole families with education on multiple newborn care practices. Researchers need to conduct robust evaluation on postnatal education models incorporating these programee elements in the LMIC context, as well as explore whether this type of education model can work for other health areas that are critical for families to survive and thrive.
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- Laura Subramanian
- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Directorate of Health Services, Punjab, India
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- Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Services, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Directorate of Public Health & Family Welfare, National Health Mission, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Division of Global Health Equity & Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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George ER, Hawrusik R, Marx Delaney M, Kara N, Kalita T, Semrau KE. Who's your coach? The relationship between coach characteristics and birth attendants' adherence to the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist. Gates Open Res 2020; 4:111. [PMID: 32803131 PMCID: PMC7417619 DOI: 10.12688/gatesopenres.13118.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background: Research demonstrates that coaching is an effective method for promoting behavior change, yet little is known about which attributes of a coach make them more or less effective. This post hoc, sub-analysis of the BetterBirth trial used observational data to explore whether specific coaches' and team leaders' characteristics were associated with improved adherence to essential birth practices listed on the World Health Organization Safe Childbirth Checklist. Methods: A descriptive analysis was conducted on the coach characteristics from the 50 BetterBirth coaches and team leaders. Data on adherence to essential birth practices by birth attendants who received coaching were collected by independent observers. Bivariate linear regression models were constructed, accounting for clustering by site, to examine the association between coach characteristics and attendants' adherence to practices. Results: All of the coaches were female and the majority were nurses. Team leaders were comprised of both males and females; half had clinical backgrounds. There was no association between coaches' or team leaders' characteristics, namely gender, type of degree, or years of clinical training, and attendants' adherence to essential birth practices. However, a significant inverse relationship was detected between the coach or team leader's age and years of experience and the birth attendants' adherence to the checklist. Conclusion: Younger, less experienced coaches were more successful in promoting essential birth practices adherence in this population. More data is needed to fully understand the relationship between coaches and birth attendants.
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- Emily R. George
- Ariadne Labs | Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02135, USA
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- Ariadne Labs | Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02135, USA
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- Ariadne Labs | Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02135, USA
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- Ariadne Labs | Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02135, USA
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- Population Services International, Lucknow, India
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- Ariadne Labs | Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02135, USA
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Barnhart DA, Spiegelman D, Zigler CM, Kara N, Delaney MM, Kalita T, Maji P, Hirschhorn LR, Semrau KEA. Coaching Intensity, Adherence to Essential Birth Practices, and Health Outcomes in the BetterBirth Trial in Uttar Pradesh, India. Glob Health Sci Pract 2020; 8:38-54. [PMID: 32127359 PMCID: PMC7108945 DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-19-00317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2019] [Accepted: 01/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Coaching can improve the quality of care in primary-level birth facilities and promote birth attendant adherence to essential birth practices (EBPs) that reduce maternal and perinatal mortality. The intensity of coaching needed to promote and sustain behavior change is unknown. We investigated the relationship between coaching intensity, EBP adherence, and maternal and perinatal health outcomes using data from the BetterBirth Trial, which assessed the impact of a complex, coaching-based implementation of the World Health Organization's Safe Childbirth Checklist in Uttar Pradesh, India. METHODS For each birth, we defined multiple coaching intensity metrics, including coaching frequency (coaching visits per month), cumulative coaching (total coaching visits accrued during the intervention), and scheduling adherence (coaching delivered as scheduled). We considered coaching delivered at both facility and birth attendant levels. We assessed the association between coaching intensity and birth attendant adherence to 18 EBPs and with maternal and perinatal health outcomes using regression models. RESULTS Coaching frequency was associated with modestly increased EBP adherence. Delivering 6 coaching visits per month to facilities was associated with adherence to 1.3 additional EBPs (95% confidence interval [CI]=0.6, 1.9). High-frequency coaching delivered with high coverage among birth attendants was associated with greater improvements: providing 70% of birth attendants at a facility with at least 1 visit per month was associated with adherence to 2.0 additional EBPs (95% CI=1.0, 2.9). Neither cumulative coaching nor scheduling adherence was associated with EBP adherence. Coaching was generally not associated with health outcomes, possibly due to the small magnitude of association between coaching and EBP adherence. CONCLUSIONS Frequent coaching may promote behavior change, especially if delivered with high coverage among birth attendants. However, the effects of coaching were modest and did not persist over time, suggesting that future coaching-based interventions should explore providing frequent coaching for longer periods.
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science and Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
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- University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.,Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, USA
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Ariadne Labs, Boston, MA, USA
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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.,Access Health International, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Boston, MA, USA.,Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Barnhart DA, Semrau KEA, Zigler CM, Molina RL, Delaney MM, Hirschhorn LR, Spiegelman D. Optimizing the development and evaluation of complex interventions: lessons learned from the BetterBirth Program and associated trial. Implement Sci Commun 2020; 1:29. [PMID: 32885188 PMCID: PMC7427863 DOI: 10.1186/s43058-020-00014-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Despite extensive efforts to develop and refine intervention packages, complex interventions often fail to produce the desired health impacts in full-scale evaluations. A recent example of this phenomenon is BetterBirth, a complex intervention designed to implement the World Health Organization's Safe Childbirth Checklist and improve maternal and neonatal health. Using data from the BetterBirth Program and its associated trial as a case study, we identified lessons to assist in the development and evaluation of future complex interventions. METHODS BetterBirth was refined across three sequential development phases prior to being tested in a matched-pair, cluster randomized trial in Uttar Pradesh, India. We reviewed published and internal materials from all three development phases to identify barriers hindering the identification of an optimal intervention package and identified corresponding lessons learned. For each lesson, we describe its importance and provide an example motivated by the BetterBirth Program's development to illustrate how it could be applied to future studies. RESULTS We identified three lessons: (1) develop a robust theory of change (TOC); (2) define optimization outcomes, which are used to assess the effectiveness of the intervention across development phases, and corresponding criteria for success, which determine whether the intervention has been sufficiently optimized to warrant full-scale evaluation; and (3) create and capture variation in the implementation intensity of components. When applying these lessons to the BetterBirth intervention, we demonstrate how a TOC could have promoted more complete data collection. We propose an optimization outcome and related criteria for success and illustrate how they could have resulted in additional development phases prior to the full-scale trial. Finally, we show how variation in components' implementation intensities could have been used to identify effective intervention components. CONCLUSION These lessons learned can be applied during both early and advanced stages of complex intervention development and evaluation. By using examples from a real-world study to demonstrate the relevance of these lessons and illustrating how they can be applied in practice, we hope to encourage future researchers to collect and analyze data in a way that promotes more effective complex intervention development and evaluation. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02148952; registered on May 29, 2014.
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- Ariadne Labs, Boston, MA USA
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- University of Texas, Austin, TX USA
- Dell Medical School, Austin, TX USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Boston, MA USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA USA
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA
- Ariadne Labs, Boston, MA USA
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA
- Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science and Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT USA
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Molina RL, Neal BJ, Bobanski L, Singh VP, Neville BA, Delaney MM, Lipsitz S, Karlage A, Shetye M, Semrau KEA. Nurses' and auxiliary nurse midwives' adherence to essential birth practices with peer coaching in Uttar Pradesh, India: a secondary analysis of the BetterBirth trial. Implement Sci 2020; 15:1. [PMID: 31900167 PMCID: PMC6941293 DOI: 10.1186/s13012-019-0962-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2019] [Accepted: 12/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The BetterBirth trial tested the effect of a peer coaching program around the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist for birth attendants in primary-level facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India on a composite measure of perinatal and maternal mortality and maternal morbidity. This study aimed to examine the adherence to essential birth practices between two different cadres of birth attendants-nurses and auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs)-during and after a peer coaching intervention for the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist. METHODS This is a secondary analysis of birth attendant characteristics, coaching visits, and behavior uptake during the BetterBirth trial through birth attendant surveys, coach observations, and independent observations. Descriptive statistics were calculated overall, and by staffing cadre (staff nurses and ANMs) for demographic characteristics. Logistic regression using the Pearson overdispersion correction (to account for clustering by site) was used to assess differences between staff nurses and ANMs in the intervention group during regular coaching (2-month time point) and 4 months after the coaching program ended (12-month time point). RESULTS Of the 570 birth attendants who responded to the survey in intervention and control arms, 474 were staff nurses (83.2%) and 96 were ANMs (16.8%). In the intervention arm, more staff nurses (240/260, 92.3%) received coaching at all pause points compared to ANMs (40/53, 75.5%). At baseline, adherence to practices was similar between ANMs and staff nurses (~ 30%). Overall percent adherence to essential birth practices among ANMs and nurses was highest at 2 months after intervention initiation, when frequent coaching visits occurred (68.1% and 64.1%, respectively, p = 0.76). Practice adherence tapered to 49.2% among ANMs and 56.1% among staff nurses at 12 months, which was 4 months after coaching had ended (p = 0.68). CONCLUSIONS Overall, ANMs and nurses responded similarly to the coaching intervention with the greatest increase in percent adherence to essential birth practices after 2 months of coaching and subsequent decrease in adherence 4 months after coaching ended. While coaching is an effective strategy to support some aspects of birth attendant competency, the structure, content, and frequency of coaching may need to be customized according to the birth attendant training and competency. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT2148952; Universal Trial Number: U1111-1131-5647.
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- Rose L Molina
- Division of Global and Community Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
- Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- Ariadne Labs, 401 Park Drive, 3rd Floor East, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
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- Ariadne Labs, 401 Park Drive, 3rd Floor East, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, 401 Park Drive, 3rd Floor East, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Community Empowerment Lab, 26/11 Wazir Hasan Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226001, India
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- Ariadne Labs, 401 Park Drive, 3rd Floor East, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, 401 Park Drive, 3rd Floor East, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, 401 Park Drive, 3rd Floor East, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Capital Court, 5th Floor, Olof Palme Marg, Munirka, Delhi, India
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- Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Ariadne Labs, 401 Park Drive, 3rd Floor East, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
- Division of Global Health Equity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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Marx Delaney M, Maji P, Kalita T, Kara N, Rana D, Kumar K, Masoinneuve J, Cousens S, Gawande AA, Kumar V, Kodkany B, Sharma N, Saurastri R, Pratap Singh V, Hirschhorn LR, Semrau KE, Firestone R. Update of: Marx Delaney et al., 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. Glob Health Sci Pract 2018; 6:227. [PMID: 29602875 PMCID: PMC5878076 DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-18-00064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Megan Marx Delaney
- Ariadne 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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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Ariadne 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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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Ariadne 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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- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Ariadne Labs, a Joint Center between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 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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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Ariadne Labs, a Joint Center between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, a Joint Center between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 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
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Semrau KEA, Hirschhorn LR, Marx Delaney M, Singh VP, Saurastri R, Sharma N, Tuller DE, Firestone R, Lipsitz S, Dhingra-Kumar N, Kodkany BS, Kumar V, Gawande AA. Outcomes of a Coaching-Based WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program in India. N Engl J Med 2017; 377:2313-2324. [PMID: 29236628 PMCID: PMC5672590 DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1701075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The prevalence of facility-based childbirth in low-resource settings has increased dramatically during the past two decades, yet gaps in the quality of care persist and mortality remains high. The World Health Organization (WHO) Safe Childbirth Checklist, a quality-improvement tool, promotes systematic adherence to practices that have been associated with improved childbirth outcomes. METHODS We conducted a matched-pair, cluster-randomized, controlled trial in 60 pairs of facilities across 24 districts of Uttar Pradesh, India, testing the effect of the BetterBirth program, an 8-month coaching-based implementation of the Safe Childbirth Checklist, on a composite outcome of perinatal death, maternal death, or maternal severe complications within 7 days after delivery. Outcomes - assessed 8 to 42 days after delivery - were compared between the intervention group and the control group with adjustment for clustering and matching. We also compared birth attendants' adherence to 18 essential birth practices in 15 matched pairs of facilities at 2 and 12 months after the initiation of the intervention. RESULTS Of 161,107 eligible women, we enrolled 157,689 (97.9%) and determined 7-day outcomes for 157,145 (99.7%) mother-newborn dyads. Among 4888 observed births, birth attendants' mean practice adherence was significantly higher in the intervention group than in the control group (72.8% vs. 41.7% at 2 months; 61.7% vs. 43.9% at 12 months; P<0.001 for both comparisons). However, there was no significant difference between the trial groups either in the composite primary outcome (15.1% in the intervention group and 15.3% in the control group; relative risk, 0.99; 95% confidence interval, 0.83 to 1.18; P=0.90) or in secondary maternal or perinatal adverse outcomes. CONCLUSIONS Birth attendants' adherence to essential birth practices was higher in facilities that used the coaching-based WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program than in those that did not, but maternal and perinatal mortality and maternal morbidity did not differ significantly between the two groups. (Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Clinical Trials number, NCT02148952 .).
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- Katherine E A Semrau
- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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- From Ariadne Labs-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (K.E.A.S., M.M.D., D.E.T., S.L., A.A.G.), the Divisions of Global Health Equity (K.E.A.S.) and General Internal Medicine (S.L.) and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (K.E.A.S.), and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (A.A.G.) - all in Boston; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago (L.R.H.); Population Services International (V.P.S., R.S., N.S.) and the Community Empowerment Lab (V.K.), Lucknow, and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum (B.S.K.) - all in India; Population Services International, Washington, DC (R.F.); and the World Health Organization, Geneva (N.D.-K.)
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Gass JD, Misra A, Yadav MNS, Sana F, Singh C, Mankar A, Neal BJ, Fisher-Bowman J, Maisonneuve J, Delaney MM, Kumar K, Singh VP, Sharma N, Gawande A, Semrau K, Hirschhorn LR. Implementation and results of an integrated data quality assurance protocol in a randomized controlled trial in Uttar Pradesh, India. Trials 2017; 18:418. [PMID: 28882167 PMCID: PMC5590237 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-017-2159-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 08/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND There are few published standards or methodological guidelines for integrating Data Quality Assurance (DQA) protocols into large-scale health systems research trials, especially in resource-limited settings. The BetterBirth Trial is a matched-pair, cluster-randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the BetterBirth Program, which seeks to improve quality of facility-based deliveries and reduce 7-day maternal and neonatal mortality and maternal morbidity in Uttar Pradesh, India. In the trial, over 6300 deliveries were observed and over 153,000 mother-baby pairs across 120 study sites were followed to assess health outcomes. We designed and implemented a robust and integrated DQA system to sustain high-quality data throughout the trial. METHODS We designed the Data Quality Monitoring and Improvement System (DQMIS) to reinforce six dimensions of data quality: accuracy, reliability, timeliness, completeness, precision, and integrity. The DQMIS was comprised of five functional components: 1) a monitoring and evaluation team to support the system; 2) a DQA protocol, including data collection audits and targets, rapid data feedback, and supportive supervision; 3) training; 4) standard operating procedures for data collection; and 5) an electronic data collection and reporting system. Routine audits by supervisors included double data entry, simultaneous delivery observations, and review of recorded calls to patients. Data feedback reports identified errors automatically, facilitating supportive supervision through a continuous quality improvement model. RESULTS The five functional components of the DQMIS successfully reinforced data reliability, timeliness, completeness, precision, and integrity. The DQMIS also resulted in 98.33% accuracy across all data collection activities in the trial. All data collection activities demonstrated improvement in accuracy throughout implementation. Data collectors demonstrated a statistically significant (p = 0.0004) increase in accuracy throughout consecutive audits. The DQMIS was successful, despite an increase from 20 to 130 data collectors. CONCLUSIONS In the absence of widely disseminated data quality methods and standards for large RCT interventions in limited-resource settings, we developed an integrated DQA system, combining auditing, rapid data feedback, and supportive supervision, which ensured high-quality data and could serve as a model for future health systems research trials. Future efforts should focus on standardization of DQA processes for health systems research. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov identifier, NCT02148952 . Registered on 13 February 2014.
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- Jonathon D Gass
- Ariadne Labs of the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Population Services International, New Delhi, India
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- Population Services International, New Delhi, India
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- Ariadne Labs of the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ariadne Labs of the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ariadne Labs of the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ariadne Labs of the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ariadne Labs of the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ariadne Labs of the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ariadne Labs of the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Arthur J. Rubloff Building 420 East Superior Street, Chicago, 60611, Illinois, USA
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Marx Delaney M, Maji P, Kalita T, Kara N, Rana D, Kumar K, Masoinneuve J, Cousens S, Gawande AA, Kumar V, Kodkany B, Sharma N, Saurastri R, Pratap Singh V, Hirschhorn LR, Semrau KE, Firestone R. 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. Glob Health Sci Pract 2017; 5:217-231. [PMID: 28655800 PMCID: PMC5487085 DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-16-00410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 05/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Implementation of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist with peer coaching resulted in >90% adherence to 35 of 39 essential birth practices among birth attendants after 8 months, but adherence to some practices was lower when the coach was absent. Background: Adherence to evidence-based essential birth practices is critical for improving health outcomes for mothers and newborns. The WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) incorporates these practices, which occur during 4 critical pause points: on admission, before pushing (or cesarean delivery), soon after birth, and before discharge. A peer-coaching strategy to support consistent use of the SCC may be an effective approach to increase birth attendants' adherence to these practices. Methods: We assessed data from 60 public health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India, that received an 8-month staggered coaching intervention from December 2014 to September 2016 as part of the BetterBirth Trial, which is studying effectiveness of an SCC-centered intervention on maternal and neonatal harm. Nurse coaches recorded birth attendants' adherence to 39 essential birth practices. Practice adherence was calculated for each intervention month. After 2 months of coaching, a subsample of 15 facilities was selected for independent observation when the coach was not present. We compared adherence to the 18 practices recorded by both coaches and independent observers. Results: Coaches observed birth attendants' behavior during 5,971 deliveries. By the final month of the intervention, 35 of 39 essential birth practices had achieved >90% adherence in the presence of a coach, compared with only 7 of 39 practices during the first month. Key behaviors with the greatest improvement included explanation of danger signs, temperature measurement, assessment of fetal heart sounds, initiation of skin-to-skin contact, and breastfeeding. Without a coach present, birth attendants' average adherence to practices and checklist use was 24 percentage points lower than when a coach was present (range: −1% to 62%). Conclusion: Implementation of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist with coaching improved uptake of and adherence to essential birth practices. Coordination and communication among facility staff, as well as behaviors with an immediate, tangible benefit, showed the greatest improvement. Difficult-to-perform behaviors and those with delayed or theoretical benefits were less likely to be sustained without a coach present. Coaching may be an important component in implementing the Safe Childbirth Checklist at scale. (After publication of this article, the impact results of the BetterBirth intervention were published in the New England Journal of Medicine [volume 377, pages 2313-2324, doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1701075]. The results showed that the intervention had no significant effect on maternal or perinatal mortality or maternal morbidity, despite having positive effects on essential birth practices.)
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- Megan Marx Delaney
- Ariadne 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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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Ariadne 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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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Ariadne 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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- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Ariadne Labs, a Joint Center between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 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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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Population Services International, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Ariadne Labs, a Joint Center between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Ariadne Labs, a Joint Center between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 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
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Heterogeneity of structure and function among nephrons is a well-recognized feature of chronic renal diseases. However, only a small number of superficial nephrons per kidney are accessible for micropuncture analysis and relationships of proteinuria to structural change in individual nephrons of experimental models are not clearly established. To directly evaluate proteinuria in many individual nephrons, we developed an immunomorphometric method of analysis. This method is based on the uniformly abundant renal synthesis of Tamm-Horsfall protein (THP) in the thick ascending limb of Henle's loop (TAL). Luminal rabbit immunoglobulin G (IgG) deposits are formed in TALs of proteinuric nephrons in rats injected with heterologous IgG anti-THP antibodies. This immunomorphometric luminal deposit method of assessing proteinuria was previously validated through analysis of heterologous immune complex nephropathy. Glomerular dysfunction in several models-spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), aging Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats, rats with adriamycin nephropathy (ADR), and rats subjected to subtotal nephrectomy (NX)-was characterized by immunomorphometric analysis after injection of anti-THP antibodies. Luminal IgG deposits were used to identify nephrons with increased proteinuria. Nephrons were identified histologically as either long looped (LL) or short looped (SL), and frequency of luminal deposits in these nephrons was determined. Glomerular size and sclerosis in deep and superficial zones of renal cortex were determined. Luminal deposits in LL nephrons were more frequent than luminal deposits in SL nephrons in SHRs (p < .001) and aging rats (p < .001) and SL nephrons in ADR rats (p < .02). Whole kidney levels of albuminuria correlated closely with the frequency of luminal deposits in both LL and SL nephrons of SHRs and ADR rats and in LL nephrons of aging rats (p < .005). In contrast, LL and SL deposits were equal in NX rats and did not correlate with albuminuria. A majority of luminal deposits extended beyond the first medullary TAL zone of NX rats, but was confined to this zone in the other 3 models. Deep cortical glomeruli were larger with more glomerulosclerosis than superficial cortical glomeruli. Albuminuria correlated with sclerosis of both deep (p < .002) and superficial (p < .01) glomeruli in NX rats, but not in the other three models. These studies provide a detailed characterization of a new method that allows comparison of proteinuria derived from deep and superficial nephrons. They also provide evidence that pathogenesis of the glomerulosclerosis in NX rats differs from that of the other three models. Glomerulosclerosis was closely linked to the overall level of albuminuria in NX rats, but not to luminal deposits. In the other three models, albuminuria and luminal deposits were closely linked but did not correlate with glomerulosclerosis. Furthermore, LL and SL nephron proteinuria of NX rats was comparable while LL proteinuria was markedly greater than SL proteinuria in the other three models. The luminal deposit method provides a new way to analyze heterogeneity of proteinuria among nephrons and the mechanisms underlying structural change in experimental glomerular diseases.
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- J R Hoyer
- Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4318, USA.
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Two infants with familial erythrophagocytic reticulosis attained a durable complete remission after combination chemotherapy including intrathecal methotrexate. Though both later died, neither child had definitive evidence of tumour at necropsy.
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