Using quality improvement to decrease birth asphyxia rates after ‘Helping Babies Breathe’ training in Kenya

The Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) programme is known to decrease neonatal mortality in low‐resource settings but gaps in care still exist. This study describes the use of quality improvement to sustain gains in birth asphyxia‐related mortality after HBB.

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