ALERT stepped-wedge trial in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda — full Stata pipeline (data cleaning, analysis and meta-analysis)

ALERT — Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity: Stata analysis syntax for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial in 16 hospitals across Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. Project website: https://alert.ki.se This release archives the complete do-file syntax used for the main results paper, covering the full pipeline from raw-data cleaning through outcome derivation, per-hospital modelling, and meta-analysis. Contents 0_ALERT_pipeline_master.do — master runner documenting and chaining the stages. Data cleaning/ — preparation pipeline (0a → 0b → 1a → 1a.i → 1b): prepare Benin data, append the four countries, clean per woman, clean baby morbidity, and reshape wide → long. Main analyses/ — outcome derivation, descriptive tables, per-hospital mixed-effects models (melogit/mixed/xtgee), and random-effects meta-analysis with metan (one forest plot per outcome). README.md, LICENSE (MIT), Authors.docx. Outcomes analysed Fresh stillbirths, early perinatal mortality, low Apgar (