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Using Observational Data to Estimate the Effect of Hand Washing and Clean Delivery Kit Use by Birth Attendants on Maternal Deaths after Home Deliveries in Rural Bangladesh, India and Nepal

BACKGROUND: Globally, puerperal sepsis accounts for an estimated 8–12% of maternal deaths, but evidence is lacking on the extent to which clean delivery practices could improve maternal survival. We used data from the control arms of four cluster-randomised controlled trials conducted in rural India...

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Autores principales: Seward, Nadine, Prost, Audrey, Copas, Andrew, Corbin, Marine, Li, Leah, Colbourn, Tim, Osrin, David, Neuman, Melissa, Azad, Kishwar, Kuddus, Abdul, Nair, Nirmala, Tripathy, Prasanta, Manandhar, Dharma, Costello, Anthony, Cortina-Borja, Mario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4546655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26295838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136152