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Sharing the knowledge – improving quality of care in EthiopiaIn Ethiopia, Network activities are focused in 48 learning health facilities, selected from seven regions, with the intention that positive learning is diffused to other service providers in the country. Our QCN research aims to examine the performance and achievements of the structural Network as a knowledge sharing...
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How do we measure women’s experience of childbirth care?When women go to a health facility to deliver, they expect to be looked after – to receive all the clinical care necessary to ensure their safety and the safety of the newborn. Women also expect to be looked after respectfully and be treated with dignity. Both these dimensions make up the overall quality of care...
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Why data falsification happensThis qualitative study published in BMJ Global Health aimed to understand reasons why healthcare providers intentionally falsify maternal and...
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How context influences quality improvement initiativesThis study, published in BMJ Open Quality, aims to understand the influence of context on the choice of change concepts implemented by public...
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From Theory to Implementation: Adaptations to a Quality Improvement Initiative According to Implementing ContextAccess to maternal and newborn care is increasing but due to the poor quality of care provided this doesn’t necessarily lead to fewer avoidable...
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How health care workers choose their jobs: a discrete choice experiment in EthiopiaThis study unlike many others, which interview doctors or medical students, aimed to understand job preferences of lower-skilled cadres such as...
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Can quality improvement programmes affect health care workers’ motivation?
A knowledgeable and motivated workforce is critical for health systems to provide high-quality services. Many low- and middle-income countries
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Sharing the knowledge – improving quality of care in EthiopiaIn Ethiopia, Network activities are focused in 48 learning health facilities, selected from seven regions, with the intention that positive...
Blog Post
How do we measure women’s experience of childbirth care?When women go to a health facility to deliver, they expect to be looked after – to receive all the clinical care necessary to ensure their...
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Health extension worker’s abilities to classify childhood illnesses don’t improve with OHEP interventionThe Dagu PhD student Theodros Getachew published this paper in PLOS ONE aiming to evaluate the association between the Optimising the Health...
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Improving the use of focus group discussions in low income settingsThis paper authored by Pauline Scheelbeek et al and published in BMC Medical Research Methodology describes how six exercises were used in 32...