Roadmap to an effective quality improvement and patient safety program implementation in a rural hospital setting

Willy Ingabire; Petera M Reine; Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier; Lisa R Hirschhorn; Catherine M Kirk; Evrard Nahimana; Jean Nepomscene Uwiringiyemungu; Aphrodis Ndayisaba; Anatole Manzi

doi:10.1016/j.hjdsi.2015.10.010

Roadmap to an effective quality improvement and patient safety program implementation in a rural hospital setting

Healthc (Amst). 2015 Dec;3(4):277-82. doi: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2015.10.010. Epub 2015 Nov 21.

Authors

Willy Ingabire¹, Petera M Reine¹, Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier², Lisa R Hirschhorn³, Catherine M Kirk¹, Evrard Nahimana¹, Jean Nepomscene Uwiringiyemungu⁴, Aphrodis Ndayisaba¹, Anatole Manzi⁵

Affiliations

¹ Partners In Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima, Rwanda.
² Partners In Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima, Rwanda; Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA.
³ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA; Ariadne Labs, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Ministry of Health, Rwanda.
⁵ Partners In Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima, Rwanda; Partners In Health, USA. Electronic address: mangano2020@gmail.com.

PMID: 26699357
DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2015.10.010

Abstract

Implementation lessons: (1) implementation of an effective quality improvement and patient safety program in a rural hospital setting requires collaboration between hospital leadership, Ministry of Health and other stakeholders. (2) Building Quality Improvement (QI) capacity to develop engaged QI teams supported by mentoring can improve quality and patient safety.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Hospitals, Rural
Humans
Patient Safety*
Program Development
Quality Improvement