作者
Shehnaz Alidina, Salome Kuchukhidze, Gopal Menon, Isabelle Citron, Tenzing N Lama, John Meara, David Barash, Augustino Hellar, Ntuli A Kapologwe, Erastus Maina, Cheri Reynolds, Steven J Staffa, Alena Troxel, Asha Varghese, David Zurakowski, Mpoki Ulisubisya, Sarah Maongezi
发表日期
2019/10/1
期刊
BMJ open
卷号
9
期号
10
页码范围
e031800
出版商
British Medical Journal Publishing Group
简介
Introduction
Effective, scalable strategies for improving surgical quality are urgently needed in low-income and middle-income countries; however, there is a dearth of evidence about what strategies are most effective. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Safe Surgery 2020, a multicomponent intervention focused on strengthening five areas: leadership and teamwork, safe surgical and anaesthesia practices, sterilisation, data quality and infrastructure to improve surgical quality in Tanzania. We hypothesise that Safe Surgery 2020 will (1) increase adherence to surgical quality processes around safety, teamwork and communication and data quality in the short term and (2) reduce complications from surgical site infections, postoperative sepsis and maternal sepsis in the medium term.
Methods and analysis
Our design is a prospective, longitudinal, quasi-experimental study with 10 intervention and 10 control …
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