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Surgical Assessment Tool for Ethiopia National Policy Monitoring & Evaluation

NCT04276103 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 14

Last updated 2020-02-19

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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

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • General Electric

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Federal Minstry of Health of Ethiopia

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Jhpiego

    collaborator OTHER

  • Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • John G Meara, MD, DMD, MBA · Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's Hospital

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-11-01
Primary Completion
2019-02-23
Completion
2019-02-23

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