Science and beyond science in the reporting of quality of facility-based maternal and newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic—Authors’ reply

• Marzia Lazzerini,
• Raquel Costa,
• Ilaria Mariani,
• Eline Skirnisdottir Vik,
• Helen Elden,
• Karolina Linden,
• Mehreen Zaigham,
• Alina Liepinaitienė,
• Maryse Arendt,
• Zalka Drglin,
• Emma Sacks,
• Ornella Lincetto,
• Emanuelle Pessa Valente

Affiliations

Marzia Lazzerini

Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy; Corresponding author.

Raquel Costa

EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal (FCT; UIDB/04750/2020); Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR), Porto, Portugal; Lusófona University/HEI-Lab: Digital Human-environment Interaction Labs, Portugal (FCT; UIDB/05380/2020)

Ilaria Mariani

Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy

Eline Skirnisdottir Vik

Department of health and caring sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

Helen Elden

Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Region Vastra Gotaland, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Karolina Linden

Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Mehreen Zaigham

Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institution of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund and Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Alina Liepinaitienė

Kaunas University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania

Maryse Arendt

BLL - Beruffsverband vun de Laktatiounsberoderinnen zu Lëtzebuerg asbl, Luxembourg Luxembourg

Zalka Drglin

National Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Emma Sacks

Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Ornella Lincetto

Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy

Emanuelle Pessa Valente

Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy