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Understanding the barriers to setting up a healthcare quality improvement process in resource-limited settings: a situational analysis at the Medical Department of Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe…

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, January 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
Understanding the barriers to setting up a healthcare quality improvement process in resource-limited settings: a situational analysis at the Medical Department of Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, January 2014
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-14-1
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Authors

Josephine Nana Afrakoma Agyeman-Duah, Antje Theurer, Charles Munthali, Noor Alide, Florian Neuhann

Abstract

Knowledge regarding the best approaches to improving the quality of healthcare and their implementation is lacking in many resource-limited settings. The Medical Department of Kamuzu Central Hospital in Malawi set out to improve the quality of care provided to its patients and establish itself as a recognized centre in teaching, operations research and supervision of district hospitals. Efforts in the past to achieve these objectives were short-lived, and largely unsuccessful. Against this background, a situational analysis was performed to aid the Medical Department to define and prioritize its quality improvement activities.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 210 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 45 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 12%
Student > Bachelor 20 9%
Researcher 17 8%
Other 17 8%
Other 38 18%
Unknown 50 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 60 28%
Nursing and Health Professions 36 17%
Social Sciences 16 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 12 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 3%
Other 21 10%
Unknown 62 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 November 2018.
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#2,085,658
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Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#763
of 8,705 outputs
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#22,975
of 320,277 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#9
of 109 outputs
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