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A multi-faceted hospital-based intervention for intrapartum care in sub-Saharan Africa: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial

Published by Nature.com By Claudia Hanson, Joseph Akuze, Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, Helle Mölsted Alvesson, Sunjuri Sun, Manuela Straneo, Nicola Orsini, Lenka Benova, Mechthild M. Gross, Bruno Marchal, Rian Snijders, Effie Chipeta, Peter Waiswa, Hussein Kidanto, Jean-Paul Dossou, Andrea Barnabas Pembe, Claudia Hanson, Regine Unkels, Soha El Halabi, Ann-Beth Nygaard Moller, Veronika Tirado, Anastasia Månsson, Maria del Rosario Alsina, Sibylle Herzig van Wees, Joseph Akuze, Peter Waiswa, Elizabeth O. Ayebare, Gorrette Nalwadda, Josephine Babirye, Philip Wanduru, Gertrude Namazzi, Virginia Castellano Pleguezuelo, Therese Delvaux, Jil Molenaar, Joanne Welsh, Bianca Kandeya, Samuel Meja, William Stones, Yesaya Z. Nyirenda, Hussein L. Kidanto, Muzdalifat Abeid, Tumbwene Mwansisya, Zamoyoni Julius, Antoinette Sognonvi, Armelle Vigan, Christelle Boyi Metogni, Gisele Houngbo, Gottfried Agballa, Christian Agossou, Andrea B. Pembe, Fadhlun M. Alwy Al-Beity, Dickson Mkoka, Lilian T. Mselle, Beatrice Mwilike · 26 August 2026 at 03:00
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A multi-faceted hospital-based intervention for intrapartum care in sub-Saharan Africa: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial
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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…

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