Barriers to providing quality emergency obstetric care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Healthcare providers' perspectives on training, referrals and supervision, a mixed methods study.

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Published in BMC Pregnancy Childbirth on March 29, 2015

Authors

Anne Austin1, Hanna Gulema2, Maria Belizan3, Daniela S Colaci4, Tamil Kendall5, Mahlet Tebeka6, Mengistu Hailemariam7, Delayehu Bekele8, Lia Tadesse9, Yemane Berhane10, Ana Langer11

Author Affiliations

1: Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA. amaustin123@gmail.com.
2: Addis Continental Institute of Public Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. gulumah@yahoo.com.
3: Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina. mbelizan@iecs.org.ar.
4: Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina. dcolaci@iecs.org.ar.
5: Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA. tkendall@hsph.harvard.edu.
6: Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA. mat851@mail.harvard.edu.
7: Federal Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. agamkega@yahoo.com.
8: St Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. dilayehu@yahoo.com.
9: St Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. liatadesse@yahoo.com.
10: Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina. yemaneberhane@gmail.com.
11: Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA. alanger@hsph.harvard.edu.

Associated clinical trials:

Health Facility Networking for Maternal Health | NCT01802957

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