Acording to this article from Impact, http://www.psi.org/impact-magazine/2012/05/can-simple-checklist-make-child-birth-safer, checklists have cut surgical deaths in half. Makes alot of sense for birth.
PSI/India has joined a team led by the World Health Organization, Harvard School of Public Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and many others who are asking whether checklists can significantly reduce the nearly 5 million maternal and infant deaths a year associated with childbirth.
PSI/India and partners have assembled a 31-item list of reminders, from the simple – asking the mother’s companion to be present at the birth – to precise clinical signs of infection and hemorrhage. Their aim over the next three years is to test it in India to see whether childbirth-related harm, including death, in institutional deliveries can be significantly reduced through adherence to essential childbirth-related clinical care standards.
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