NCT04276103

Surgical Assessment Tool for Ethiopia National Policy Monitoring & Evaluation

Development of a Surgical Assessment Tool for National Policy Monitoring & Evaluation in Ethiopia: A Quality Improvement Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 14 (actual)
• Sponsor: Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM) · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Introduction: A baseline assessment of surgical capacity is recommended as a first-step to inform national policy on surgical system strengthening. In Ethiopia, the World Health Organization's Situational Analysis Tool (WHO SAT) was adapted to assess surgical capacity as part of a national initiative: Saving Lives Through Safe Surgery (SaLTS). This study describes the process of adapting this tool and initial results. Methods: The new tool was used to evaluate fourteen hospitals in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region of Ethiopia between February and March 2017. Two analytic methods were employed. To compare this data to international metrics, the WHO Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) framework was used. To assess congruence with national policy, data was evaluated against Ethiopian SaLTS targets.

Conditions

• Global Surgery
• Health System
• Health Planning
• Global Anesthesia
• Public Health

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-11-01
• Primary completion: 2019-02-23
• Completion: 2019-02-23
• First posted: 2020-02-19
• Last updated: 2020-02-19