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    Training nurse simulation educators at scale to improve maternal and newborn health: a case study from Bihar, India

    Simulation has been shown to improve clinical and behavioral skills of birth attendants in low-resource settings at a low scale. Populous, low-resource settings such as Bihar, India, require large cadres of si...

    Solange Madriz, Patience Afulani, Hilary Spindler, Rakesh Ghosh in BMC Medical Education (2022)

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    Super Divya to the rescue! Exploring Nurse Mentor Supervisor perceptions on a digital tool to support learning and engagement for simulation educators in Bihar, India

    Since 2014, the Government of Bihar and CARE India have implemented a nurse mentoring program that utilizes PRONTO International’s simulation and team trainings to improve obstetric and neonatal care. Together...

    Anika Kalra, Manju Siju, Alisa Jenny, Hilary Spindler in BMC Medical Education (2022)

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    Training and evaluating simulation debriefers in low-resource settings: lessons learned from Bihar, India

    To develop effective and sustainable simulation training programs in low-resource settings, it is critical that facilitators are thoroughly trained in debriefing, a critical component of simulation learning. H...

    Julia H. Raney, Melissa M. Medvedev, Susanna R. Cohen in BMC Medical Education (2020)

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    Simulation-enhanced nurse mentoring to improve preeclampsia and eclampsia care: an education intervention study in Bihar, India

    Inadequately treated, preeclampsia and eclampsia (PE/E) may rapidly lead to severe complications in both mothers and neonates, and are estimated to cause 60,000 global maternal deaths annually. Simulation-base...

    Julia H. Raney, Melissa C. Morgan, Amelia Christmas in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2019)

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    The power of practice: simulation training improving the quality of neonatal resuscitation skills in Bihar, India

    Globally, neonatal mortality accounts for nearly half of under-five mortality, and intrapartum related events are a leading cause. Despite the rise in neonatal resuscitation (NR) training programs in low- and ...

    Brennan Vail, Melissa C. Morgan, Hilary Spindler, Amelia Christmas in BMC Pediatrics (2018)

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    Care of the mother-infant dyad: a novel approach to conducting and evaluating neonatal resuscitation simulation training in Bihar, India

    As the global under-five mortality rate declines, an increasing percentage is attributable to early neonatal mortality. A quarter of early neonatal deaths are due to perinatal asphyxia. However, neonatal resus...

    Brennan Vail, Hilary Spindler, Melissa C. Morgan in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2017)

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    Public health triangulation: approach and application to synthesizing data to understand national and local HIV epidemics

    Public health triangulation is a process for reviewing, synthesising and interpreting secondary data from multiple sources that bear on the same question to make public health decisions. It can be used to unde...

    George W Rutherford, William McFarland, Hilary Spindler, Karen White in BMC Public Health (2010)

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    Assessing Representativeness of Sampling Methods for Reaching Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Direct Comparison of Results Obtained from Convenience and Probability Samples

    Convenience samples are used to determine HIV-related behaviors among men who have sex with men (MSM) without measuring the extent to which the results are representative of the broader MSM population. We comp...

    Sandra Schwarcz, Hilary Spindler, Susan Scheer, Linda Valleroy in AIDS and Behavior (2007)