Ethiopia Health Care Quality Initiative: Design and Initial Lessons Learned
This article describes a three-pronged approach to accelerate health system improvement nationally in Ethiopia: a national health care quality strategy, building quality improvement capability at all health system levels, and introducing scalable QI collaboratives across four regions.
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;31(10):G180-G186.
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.