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 …

Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) is a 29-
item checklist based on essential childbirth practices to help health-care workers to deliver …

Programmes to modify the safety culture have led to lasting improvements in patient safety
and quality of care in high-income settings around the world, although their use in low …

Background: Adherence to evidence-based essential birth practices is critical for improving
health outcomes for mothers and newborns. The WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) …

Importance To address major causes of perinatal and maternal mortality, the World Health
Organization developed the Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC), which to our knowledge has …

Brazil has a cesarean rate of 56% and low use of Intrapartum Evidence-based Practices
(IEBP) of 3.4%, reflecting a medically centered and highly interventionist maternal health …

Infants need to receive care in environments that limit their exposure to pathogens.
Inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) environments and suboptimal infection …

Background A coaching-based implementation of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist in Uttar
Pradesh, India, improved adherence to evidence-based practices, but did not reduce …

Background Ministries of health in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO) have been scaling up early essential …

Global and country-specific targets for reductions in maternal and neonatal mortality in low-
resource settings will not be achieved without improvements in the quality of care for optimal …