Methods	CRCT
Participants	Total randomized (by hospital): Thailand 18; 9 (IG); 9 (CG); Mexico 22; 13 (IG); 9(CG) Age: NR Sex (% female): NR Providers: Physicians, midwives, interns and students Setting: Community hospitals with > 1,000 deliveries per year Country: Mexico and Thailand
Interventions	Intervention: A multifaceted intervention based on using the Cochrane Reproductive Health Library (RHL), which also addressed potential barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practices in the intervention group hospitals. Interactive workshops comprised the central activity of the intervention Comparison: No intervention Duration: 1 year Follow up: NR EPOC: Distribution of educational materials; conference/educational meetings; provision of computers to access RHL, get management on board, local coordinator
Outcomes	Primary outcome: Changes in the practice rates of 10 selected clinical practices (selected practices ranged from changes such as prescribing antibiotics to women at cesarean section to those that required organizational change within the units) as recommended in the RHL Secondary outcome: Knowledge of the Cochrane RHL
Notes	Targeted behavior: clinical prevention services; general management of a problem/treatment
Risk of bias
Item	Authors’ judgement	Description
Adequate sequence generation?	Yes	Quote: “The stratified allocation was based on country, type of hospital and number of births per year. The random allocation sequence was produced centrally by WHO.” Additional contact with authors provided further information that this was done using PROC PLAN of SAS software
Allocation concealment?	Yes	Quote: “Country investigators were informed of the allocation status of the hospitals after collection of baseline data was completed and when the first workshop had to be organized as required by the protocol.” Additional contact with authors provided further information that the randomization occurred at one time point, and allocation was concealed until after this time point
Blinding? All outcomes	No	The trial was not blinded.
Incomplete outcome data addressed? All outcomes	No	The Thai control group data on process outcomes was missing.
Free of selective reporting?	Yes	Primary, expected outcomes reported from published protocol. ISRCTN 14055385: (http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN14055385/14055385)