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Constance Liu1, Joseph Babigumira, Allan Chiunda
1Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Medical School, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. constance.liu@gmail.com
Background:
The purpose of this study was to summarise the current state of healthcare quality improvement literature focusing on sub-Saharan Africa.
Methods:
Conventional methods of searching the literature were quickly found to be inadequate or inappropriate, given the different needs of practitioners in sub-Saharan Africa, and the inaccessibility of the literature.
Results:
The group derived a core list of what were deemed exemplary quality improvement articles, based on consensus and a search into the "grey" literature of quality improvement.
Conclusions:
Quality improvement articles from sub-Saharan Africa are difficult to find, and suffer from a lack of centrality and organisation of literature. Efforts to address this are critical to fostering the growth of quality improvement literature in developing country settings.
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