Women’s experience of the quality of care in institutional delivery: evidence from a prospective study in rural south India

First National Conference on Bringing Evidence into Public Health Policy (EPHP 2010) Bangalore, India 10-11 December 2010 Author details1-Belaku Trust, Bangalore, IndiaEMPTY Supplemental Information: Methods A prospective study (n = 642) was undertaken from 2007 to 2009 in 80 villages in a Ramanagara taluk (an administrative sub-division of a district) of Karnataka situated in a range of 50 km to 80 km from the state capital of Bangalore. 39 villages were selected in a stratified random sample according to the distance to the primary health centres.