Ariadne Labs teamed up with Project Syndicate to produce a podcast about our BetterBirth study in India. Our executive director Atul Gawande took over the reins and interviewed BetterBirth Director Katherine Semrau about what we learned after one of the world’s largest maternal newborn health studies. Gawande: Today I’m taking over the reins from Greg… Continue reading Atul Gawande Asks Katherine Semrau: How We Can Improve Maternal and Newborn Health
Every day, more than 800 women and 7,000 babies die around the time of childbirth worldwide, while thousands more suffer life-threatening and lifelong complications. The vast majority of these deaths are preventable when proven essential birth practices are followed. The World Health Organization (WHO) Safe Childbirth Checklist brings these practices together in one 28-item tool… Continue reading Safe Childbirth Checklist: Learning from Implementation
How do we improve in the face of complexity? Atul Gawande has studied this question with a surgeon’s precision. He shares what he’s found to be the key: having a good coach to provide a more accurate picture of our reality, to instill positive habits of thinking, and to break our actions down and then… Continue reading Want to get great at something? Get a coach.
A paper in NEJM led by the BetterBirth team looks at the effects of a coaching-based WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program in India on adherence to essential birth practices.
Boston, MA – A checklist and coaching intervention to improve facility-based childbirth care and reduce deaths of women and newborns in India achieved significant gains in the quality of care during labor and delivery, but the improvements were insufficient to reduce death rates, according to a new study. The BetterBirth study is one of the… Continue reading Checklist and coaching program in India markedly improved childbirth care but did not reduce death rates