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Quality improvement in low resource settings: an Ethiopian experience.

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Abstract

Improving surgical and anaesthetic mortality in the developing world is a global health priority. Quality improvement processes have a role to play in addressing this need and are applicable to low-resource settings despite difficulties in their implementation. International initiatives to reduce perioperative mortality can be focussed to support interventions at the level of individual departments, but this requires integration with existing local systems and an understanding of the specific needs of the institutions concerned. There is a small but growing evidence base for quality improvement in low resource settings, but this needs to be locally accessible to allow self-sustaining evidence-based quality improvement.

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Anesthesia, Cooperative Behavior, Ethiopia, Health Resources, Humans, Quality Improvement, Surgical Procedures, Operative

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Br J Hosp Med (Lond)

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1750-8460
1759-7390

Volume Title

74

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MAG online