Jieyun Bai/Yuxin Huang/Isaac Khobo

Background In India, stillbirth remains asignificant, adverse pregnancy outcome and an important marker of gaps in the quality of maternal and newborn care. Even though institutional deliveries have i...

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Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations (MNSI) This report sets out a number of areas in which care could be improved for women receiving intrapartum care at home. The report provides a series of safety observations and prompts for NHS trusts on topics such as staffing availability, training and guidance, and communications between different care professionals. The publication is based on learning and insights gained from the analysis of 59 maternity investigation reports (produced between 2018 and 2025) by both the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch and MNSI.

A stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial showed that implementation of a multi-faceted ALERT intervention that promoted essential practices of intrapartum childbirth reduced the odds of early perinatal mortality but not stillbirth across 16 hospitals in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.

A stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial showed that implementation of a multi-faceted ALERT intervention that promoted essential practices of intrapartum childbirth reduced the odds of early perinata...

A stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial showed that implementation of a multi-faceted ALERT intervention that promoted essential practices of intrapartum childbirth reduced the odds of early perinata...

A stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial showed that implementation of a multi-faceted ALERT intervention that promoted essential practices of intrapartum childbirth reduced the odds of early perinata...

A stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial showed that implementation of a multi-faceted ALERT intervention that promoted essential practices of intrapartum childbirth reduced the odds of early perinatal mortality but not stillbirth across 16 hospitals in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda.

High maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity rates prevail in sub-Saharan African countries (SSA)1,2,3. Nearly half of the global 1.9 million stillbirths and 2.3 million neonatal deaths annually occur in SSA, where both stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates remain above 20 per 1,000 births2. In addition, poorly managed labor and childbirth care leads to a large burden of morbidity, including cerebral palsy and neurological disorders caused by oxygen deprivation4,5,6. Following the substantial increases in facility-based birth since the early 2000s, now exceeding 80% globally and over 60% in SSA today7,8, attention has shifted in recent years to the quality of pregnancy and childbirth care9,10. It is within this context that the World Health Organization (WHO) published a framework defining the quality of pregnancy and childbirth care in 201511 and recommendations for routine intrapartum care in 201812. This document complemented earlier guidance that focused on the management of the main maternal complications such as postpartum hemorrhage13, pre-eclampsia/eclampsia14, infection15 and preterm birth16. The later focus on the management of complications stimulated the development and evaluation of a large number of training programs17,18,19. For example, the Preterm Birth Initiative focused on an intervention package addressing specifically prematurity-related intra- and immediate postnatal care, including...

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re. We searched studies published in Ovid Medline, Embase.com, Scopus, Cochrane Central, and ClinicalTrials.gov before August 30, 2024. The primary outcome was cesarean delivery. Secondary outcomes in...