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First results from the Gombe State Maternal and Newborn Health PartnershipTogether with implementation partners the Society for Family Health, the SAQIP project of PACT Nigeria and Evidence for Action Mamaye, IDEAS has...
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Strong political leadership drives changeThis paper, recently published in BMJ Open, sets out to quantify changes in the coverage, quality and equity of essential care for mothers and...
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From Theory to Implementation: Adaptations to a Quality Improvement Initiative According to Implementing ContextAccess to maternal and newborn care is increasing but due to the poor quality of care provided this doesn’t necessarily lead to fewer avoidable...
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How do we measure women’s experience of childbirth care?When women go to a health facility to deliver, they expect to be looked after – to receive all the clinical care necessary to ensure their...
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Critically examining quality-adjusted coverage measuresImproving coverage measurement continues to be a key area of ongoing research with the IDEAS team. Currently the team is working in collaboration...
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‘A seamless transition’: how to sustain a community health worker schemeThis paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, presents a qualitative study focussing on the Village Health Worker (VHW) Scheme’s...
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Improving the use of focus group discussions in low income settingsThis paper authored by Pauline Scheelbeek et al and published in BMC Medical Research Methodology describes how six exercises were used in 32...
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Using social media to improve routine data quality metricsHow is this all linked to social media? The study, published in BMJ Open, measured changes in data quality metrics before and after the...
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Listening to Gombe MothersFeedback from patients about their experience of health care is a critically important step to improving quality of care. But mechanisms for...
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Half-way there: positive steps in maternal and newborn care in Northeast NigeriaThis IDEAS-led study, authored by Josephine Exley et al and published in BMJ Open, offers unique insights into the quality of care provided to...