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Ethiopia Health Care Quality Initiative: Design and Initial Lessons Learned

Magge H, Kiflie A, Nimako K, et al. The Ethiopia healthcare quality initiative: Design and initial lessons learned. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 2019 Dec 13. pii: mzz127. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzz127. [Epub ahead of print]

The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health and IHI co-designed a three-pronged approach to accelerate health system improvement nationally, which included developing a national health care quality strategy, building quality improvement (QI) capability at all health system levels, and introducing scalable QI collaboratives across four regions. Four prototype improvement collaboratives have been completed with high fidelity and acceptability.

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Ethiopia Health Care Quality Initiative: Design and Initial Lessons Learned