Background Health workers’ (HWs’) perspectives on the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) are not routinely collected. In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to document HWs’ perspectives on QMNC around childbirth in 12 World Health Organization (WHO) European countries. Methods HWs involved in maternal/neonatal care for at least one year between March 2020 and March 2023 answered an online validated W...
Objectives Develop and validate a WHO Standards-based online questionnaire to measure the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) around the time of childbirth from the health workers' perspective. Design Mixed-methods study. Setting Six countries of the WHO European Region. Participants and methods The questionnaire is based on lessons learnt in previous studies, and was developed in three sequential phase...