5,053
Participants
Start Date
November 30, 2016
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2021
Study Completion Date
June 30, 2022
Continuous quality improvement
A quality improvement team at the health district and at the clinics levels. A clinic level QI team will include at least one staff each from antenatal care (ANC), delivery/maternity, and well-child services. The head of the each QI team plus a supervisor from the health district bureau and a study team member constitute the district QI team. Immediately following randomization, we will bring together QI teams to review program and quality indicators from their clinics and across districts to identify key bottlenecks in the care delivery system and agree on an action plan to modify them. QI teams will be responsible for the implementation of the action plan at the level of their respective clinics. Every three months, using data from the monitoring system, the process will be repeated for a duration 18 months. To limit possible contamination, all staff from a randomized district/clinic who may have a dual appointment in another facility will be excluded from QI teams.
Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
NIH
Kinshasa School of Public Health
OTHER
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
OTHER