491
Participants
Start Date
July 14, 2014
Primary Completion Date
October 31, 2016
Study Completion Date
June 30, 2017
CQI/BTS
Application of CQI/BTS interventions through employing rapid structured cycles of data collection, testing of solutions and review of changes will be implemented. At each site a Quality Improvement Team (QIT) will be established from among the facility staff. Local Government and State level QI teams will provide oversight function of the health facilities' QI initiatives. BTS as a collaborative learning approach will be conducted quarterly in each study state at a central location with participants from the intervention sites. The sessions will provide opportunity for teams to learn from each other and to adapt and implement changes using the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model.
Control
Facilities in control will continue will routine unstructured, irregular continuous quality improvement. Break Through Collaborative will not be applied to the control facilities.
Center for Integrated Health Program, Abuja
Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria
OTHER_GOV
World Health Organization
OTHER
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, Canada
OTHER
Centre for Integrated Health Programs, Nigeria
OTHER