Research, evaluation and surveys
SUSTAIN safer-birth quality-improvement study
Anweshan was a lead institution for research design and process evaluation in SUSTAIN (Safer Birth Bundle Through Quality Improvement in Nepal), a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial with Golden Community and Laerdal in eight public hospitals, each handling at least 3,000 births a year.
- Completed
- 2018 to 2019
- Golden Community and Laerdal
- Eight public hospitals, Nepal
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Overview
The intervention combined quality-improvement training, mentoring and feedback. Anweshan examined how it worked in busy maternity wards, and the study protocol was published in Implementation Science.
Expertise
- Clinical trial support
- Process and implementation evaluation
- Qualitative research
How we worked
- 01
Co-led research design for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial in eight public hospitals.
- 02
Led the process evaluation of quality-improvement training, mentoring and feedback.
- 03
Studied how the intervention worked in busy maternity wards.
What it produced
- Process-evaluation evidence from eight high-volume hospitals
- Study protocol published in Implementation Science