Intervention in Mothers and Newborns to Reduce Maternal and Perinatal Mortality in 3 Provinces in South Africa Using a Quality Improvement Approach: Protocol for a Mixed Method Type 2 Hybrid Evaluation

Terusha Chetty   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Yages Singh   ¹ , MPH ;   Willem Odendaal   ^{1, 3} , MA ;   Solange Mianda   ⁴ , PhD ;   Nada Abdelatif   ⁵ , PhD ;   Samuel Manda   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Helen Schneider   ⁴ , PhD ;   Ameena Goga   ^{1, 7} , PhD

¹ HIV and Other Infectious Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa

² Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

³ Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

⁴ South African Medical Research Council/University of the Western Cape Health Services to Systems Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

⁵ Biostatistics Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa

⁶ Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

⁷ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa