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Bakker, Wouter https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6470-243X
van Dorp, Elisabeth
Kazembe, Misheck
Nkotola, Alfred
van Roosmalen, Jos
van den Akker, Thomas
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Article History
Received: 29 May 2020
Accepted: 5 May 2021
First Online: 22 May 2021
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: The study was approved by the National Health Science Research Committee of Malawi, as part of a broader study project into unnecessary caesareans and respectful maternity care (approval number 1995). The management of St. Luke’s Hospital gave permission to collect data in the facility. Collected data were all transferred anonymously into the database and nothing was traceable to women or involved staff. Case files were collected month for month from the Health Management Information System (HMIS) departments’ archives and kept locked in the research office during data collection.
: Not applicable.
: JvR is section editor ‘Pregnancy and Childbirth in low and middle income countries’ for BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth and TvdA is associate editor for this section.
