Implementing the WHO Labour Care Guide to reduce the use of Caesarean section in four hospitals in India: protocol and statistical analysis plan for a pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized pilot trial

• Main Authors: Joshua P. Vogel (Author), Veronica Pingray (Author), Fernando Althabe (Author), Luz Gibbons (Author), Mabel Berrueta (Author), Yeshita Pujar (Author), Manjunath Somannavar (Author), Sunil S. Vernekar (Author), Alvaro Ciganda (Author), Rocio Rodriguez (Author), Saraswati A. Welling (Author), Amit Revankar (Author), Savitri Bendigeri (Author), Jayashree Ashok Kumar (Author), Shruti Bhavi Patil (Author), Aravind Karinagannanavar (Author), Raveendra R. Anteen (Author), M. R. Pavithra (Author), Shukla Shetty (Author), B. Latha (Author), H. M. Megha (Author), Suman S. Gaddi (Author), Shaila Chikkagowdra (Author), Bellara Raghavendra (Author), Elizabeth Armari (Author), Nick Scott (Author), Katherine Eddy (Author), Caroline S. E. Homer (Author), Shivaprasad S. Goudar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Plain language summary The new WHO Labour Care Guide (LCG) is an innovative partograph that emphasises women-centred, evidence-based care during labour and childbirth. Together with clinicians working at four hospitals in India, we will develop and test a strategy to implement the LCG into routine c...