Evidence · Randomised trial
Accelerating newborn survival in Ghana through a low-dose, high-frequency health worker training approach: a cluster randomized trial.
- Delivery room and stabilisation
- Education and simulation
- Families and professional practice
- Medical
- Newborn life support
- Nursing
- Quality improvement
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Summary
Cluster randomised trial across 40 hospitals in Ghana evaluating a low-dose, high-frequency (LDHF) in-service training approach for skilled birth attendants in evidence-based labour, birth and immediate newborn care. Outcomes included institutional intrapartum stillbirths, 24-hour newborn mortality and retention of knowledge and skills one year after training. The authors report sustained reductions in facility-based newborn mortality and stillbirths, alongside retained skills. Relevant to those designing newborn resuscitation and perinatal training programmes, particularly in low-resource settings.
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