Clean birth kits to improve birth practices: development and testing of a country level decision support tool.

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Published in BMC Pregnancy Childbirth on December 19, 2012

Authors

Vanora A Hundley1, Bilal I Avan, Haris Ahmed, Wendy J Graham, Birth Kit Working Group

Author Affiliations

1: School of Health & Social Care, Bournemouth University, Royal London House, Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, BH1 3LT, UK. vhundley@bournemouth.ac.uk

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