The WHO safe childbirth checklist program implementation challenges and successful strategies for improving maternal and newborn quality of care and birth outcomes: a comprehensive review article
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Child birth practices, Safe childbirth checklist implementation challenges, WHO safe childbirth checklistAbstract
The implementation of the World Health Organization Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) bundle, a novel childbirth safety program for institutional births, would increase the quality of essential childbirth practices linked with improved maternal and perinatal health outcomes. The ob
The implementation of the World Health Organization Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) bundle, a novel childbirth safety program for institutional births, would increase the quality of essential childbirth practices linked with improved maternal and perinatal health outcomes. The objective of using SCC bundle is to improve quality of care during the delivery, immediate postpartum care, and pregnancy outcome and to enhance the satisfaction of beneficiaries visiting the health facilities and providing respectful maternity care to all pregnant women attending the public health facilities. A search of PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Science Direct, and MEDLINE databases revealed articles concerning safe childbirth checklist, quality improvement of labor room practice, maternal and newborn outcomes, and barriers and facilitators for its implementation. The research studies considered were reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomized controlled trials and observational studies. The data was sought from 2013 to 2023. The SCC is a facility-based reminder tool aimed to assist healthcare workers in improving maternal and newborn care practices before, during, and after delivery, thereby expected to impact on perinatal mortality. The checklist also addresses intrapartum-related stillbirths resulting from inadequate care during labor and delivery and neonatal deaths arising from birth asphyxia, complications related to prematurity, and infections. The purpose of this review is to find the successful strategies to overcome the SCC implementation challenges so that it can be used as a standard tool by the health care workers in all health care settings to enhance the quality of childbirth practice and prevent the unwanted death, labor, and delivery complications.
jective is to improve quality of care during the delivery, immediate postpartum care, and pregnancy outcome. In addition to enhancing the satisfaction of beneficiaries visiting the health facilities and providing respectful maternity care to all pregnant women attending the public health facility. A search of PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Science Direct, and MEDLINE databases revealed articles concerning safe childbirth checklist, quality improvement of labour room practice, maternal and newborn outcomes, and barriers and facilitators for its implementation. The research studies considered were reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomized controlled trials and observational studies. The data was sought from 2013 to 2023. The SCC is a facility-based reminder tool aimed to assist healthcare workers in improving maternal and newborn care practices before, during, and after delivery, thereby expected to impact on perinatal mortality. The checklist also addresses intrapartum-related stillbirths resulting from inadequate care during labour and delivery and neonatal deaths arising from birth asphyxia, complications related to prematurity, and infections. The purpose of this review is to find the successful strategies to overcome the SCC implementation challenges so that it can be used as a standard tool by the health care workers in all health care settings to enhance the quality of childbirth practice and prevent the unwanted death, labor, and delivery complications.
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