103,117
Participants
Start Date
October 31, 2011
Primary Completion Date
March 31, 2014
Study Completion Date
April 30, 2014
Increasing use of Antenatal Corticosteroids (ACS)
"Intervention clusters:~* Increasing administration of ACS to pregnant women at high risk of preterm birth (HRPB) by providing health providers with kits containing dexamethasone, syringes, and instructions. Eligible women receive four injections of 6 mg dexamethasone from the kit or regimen of choice at the site.~* Improving identification of women at HRPB by diffusing recommendations for ACS use to health care providers, training health care providers to identify signs of preterm labor and eligibility criteria for ACS use, providing reminders to healthcare providers on the use of the kits, and using a color-coded tape to measure uterine height to estimate gestational age in women at HRPB with unknown gestational age.~Control clusters: no specific intervention for comparison. Both intervention and control clusters: Birth attendants trained in essential newborn care of LBW infants and instructed to teach mothers how to provide care to premature infants."
Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), Buenos Aires
Universidad Francisco Marroquin Facultad de Medicina, Guatemala City
JN Medical College, Belagavi
Lata Medical Research Foundation, Nagpur
Moi University School of Medicine, Eldoret
Aga Khan University, Karachi
University of Zambia, Lusaka
RTI International
OTHER
Tulane University School of Medicine
OTHER
Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy
OTHER
University of Alabama at Birmingham
OTHER
University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
OTHER
University of Colorado, Denver
OTHER
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
OTHER
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College
OTHER
Christiana Care Health Services
OTHER
Aga Khan University
OTHER
Columbia University
OTHER
Indiana University
OTHER
Moi Univeristy
OTHER
Lata Medical Research Foundation, Nagpur
OTHER
Massachusetts General Hospital
OTHER
NICHD Global Network for Women's and Children's Health
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