The BetterBirth team and partners’ systematic review found evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the Safe Childbirth Checklist in reducing stillbirths and improving adherence to essential birth practices.
The BetterBirth team and their partners published the latest on their research of Manyata, a quality assurance and improvement program that provides training, mentorship and accreditation to private maternity facilities in India.
Drs. Asaf Bitton and Bruce Fink pen a commentary in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine on the steps needed to reorient US primary health care to be more effective, equitable, and efficient.
Members of our Home Hospital program authored a perspective in Pediatrics to discuss the emerging need for pediatric acute hospital care at home in the context of policy, economic, and clinical factors.
New research from our Better Evidence Champions program on medical librarians role in Evidence-Based Medical Practice in Africa.
The Home Hospital Team publishes the outcomes of their mixed methods evaluation on the feasibility of the Accelerator approach for generating and implementing relevant, high-quality knowledge products for Home Hospital implementation.
The Home Hospital program latest publication in BMJ Open Quality on the Scrum-based accelerator that joined disparate healthcare organizations into teams equipped to create knowledge products for home hospitals.
Meagan Elam, DrPH, MS with colleagues from the BU School of Public Health published research that identifies gaps in current implementation strategies of the Surgical Safety Checklist and provides guidance on how to address them in high-income surgical settings.
Our Better Evidence team in BMJ Global Health on finding that the data on the current medical school landscape in Africa was outdated, incomplete and needing updating. Their research identified 444 medical schools in Africa, a 160+% increase from the previous estimate of 169 schools in 2010.
Singapore General Hospital’s published results in Social Science and Medicine on our collaboration looking to go beyond assessing checklist compliance and to better understand potential sociopsychological mechanisms of the variations in SSC practices.
