Finding the best examples of healthcare quality improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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.
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Medical School, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. constance.liu@gmail.com
Constance
C
Liu
Joseph
J
Babigumira
Allan
A
Chiunda
Achilles
A
Katamba
Ilya
I
Litvak
Lakisha
L
Miller
Imelda
I
Namagembe
Juliet
J
Sekandi
Andrea
A
Seicean
Sinziana
S
Seicean
Duncan
D
Neuhauser
D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D011787:Quality of Health Care