Action leveraging evidence to reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity (ALERT): study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda

• Main Authors: Joseph Akuze (Author), Kristi Sidney Annerstedt (Author), Lenka Benova (Author), Effie Chipeta (Author), Jean-Paul Dossou (Author), Mechthild M. Gross (Author), Hussein Kidanto (Author), Bruno Marchal (Author), Helle Mölsted Alvesson (Author), Andrea B. Pembe (Author), Wim van Damme (Author), Peter Waiswa (Author), Claudia Hanson (Author), ALERT Study Team (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Insufficient reductions in maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths in the past decade are a deterrence to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 3. The majority of deaths occur during the intrapartum and immediate postnatal period. Overcoming the knowledge-do-gap to ensu...