Sarin, Enisha http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3749-4115
Bajpayee, Devina
Kumar, Arvind
Dastidar, Sourav Ghosh
Chandra, Subodh
Panda, Ranjan
Taneja, Gunjan
Gupta, Sachin
Kumar, Harish
Funding for this research was provided by:
United States Agency for International Development (AID 386 A 14 00001.)
Article History
Received: 11 May 2020
Accepted: 20 November 2020
First Online: 17 January 2021
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study used routine facility data for review with due permission from state health authorities and hospital/facility authorities. These are data that are collected as a routine part of documentation and fall under the category of publicly available information and hence waived from ethical consent (Indian Council of Medical Research, Ethical guidelines for biomedical research on human participants. Indian Council of Medical Research, 2006). Voluntary informed consent was obtained from service providers as well as pregnant women before conducting the interviews and observing labor. Anonymity and patients’/clinicians’ rights were respected. The procedures used in this study adhere to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki.