Table 2

Participants, Intervention, Control, Outcome and Timeline (PICOT) for the HTA

Bird view of PICOT for the HTA of TeCHO+ program
Participants:FHWs, TeCHO+ coordinators (district/taluka/territory), women and newborn (phase 1) and the entire family (phase 2)
Intervention:Service delivery facilitated by TeCHO+
Control:Baseline data validated from e-Mamta (mother and child tracking system)
Outcome:Adherence and coverage, improved data quality, morbidity management and mortality (in phases) and cost-effectiveness
Timeline:Data will be collected in three rounds. March 2019 for measuring adherence and coverage of essential MNCH packages, March 2020 for measuring morbidity management and March 2021 for measuring mortality indicators. This will enable addressing common trends or time-invariant differences in the observed effect.
  • FHW, Female Health Worker; HTA, Health Technology Assessment; MNCH, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; TeCHO+, Technology for Community Health Operations.