Catalytic Support for Improving Clinical Care in Special Newborn Care Units (SNCU) Through Composite SNCU Quality of Care Index (SQCI).

Objective: To develop a composite index that serves as a proxy marker of quality of clinical service and pilot test its use in 11 special neonatal care units (SNCUs) across two states in India.

Design: Secondary data from SNCU webportal.

Setting: Special new-born care units in Rajasthan and Orissa.

Special Newborn Care Plus Project in India: Preliminary Findings from Community-Based Follow-up of Newborns Discharged from Facilities.

Objective: An innovation of structured community based followup of SNCU discharged babies by ANM and ASHA was piloted under Norway India Partnership initiative. The current study describes the survival status and other outcomes among newborns discharged from SNCUs and followed at community level in first 42 days of life.

Methods: It is a retrospective cohort study on newborns discharged from SNCUs from 13 districts across four states of India.