Sustainability Assessment of a District-Wide Quality Improvement on Newborn Care Program in Rural Rwanda: A Mixed-Method Study

Background: Neonatal mortality continues to be a global challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. There is growing work to reduce mortality through improving quality of systems and care, but less is known about sustainability of improvements in the setting post initial implementat...

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Autores principales:	Evrard Nahimana, Hema Magge, Francois Bizimana, Merab Nishimwe, Christina Thompson Lively, Hannay Gilbert, Bethany Hedt Gauthier, Felix Sayinzoga, Fulgence Nkikabahizi, Lisa R. Hirschhorn
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Publicado:	Ubiquity Press 2021
Materias:	Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8d2fb79b260c499ea5d64a17258ff9092021-12-02T15:36:52ZSustainability Assessment of a District-Wide Quality Improvement on Newborn Care Program in Rural Rwanda: A Mixed-Method Study2214-999610.5334/aogh.3205https://doaj.org/article/8d2fb79b260c499ea5d64a17258ff9092021-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/3205https://doaj.org/toc/2214-9996Background: Neonatal mortality continues to be a global challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. There is growing work to reduce mortality through improving quality of systems and care, but less is known about sustainability of improvements in the setting post initial implementation. We conducted a 12-month sustainability assessment of All Babies Count (ABC), a district-wide quality improvement project including mentoring and improvement collaborative designed to improve quality and reduce neonatal mortality in two districts in rural Rwanda. Methods: We measured changes in key neonatal process, coverage, and outcome indicators between the completion of ABC implementation and 12 months after the completion. In addition, we conducted 4 focus group discussions and 15 individual in-depth interviews with health providers and facility and district leaders to understand factors that influenced sustainability of improvements. We used an inductive, content analytic approach to derive six themes related to the ABC sustainability to explain quantitative results. Findings: Twelve months after the completion of ABC implementation, we found continued improvements in core quality, coverage, and neonatal outcomes. During ABC, the percentage of women with 4 antenatal visits increased from 12% to 30% and remained stable 12 months post-ABC (30%, p = 0.7) with an increase in facility-based delivery from 92.6% at the end of ABC to 95.8% (p = 0.01) at 12-month post-ABC. During ABC intervention, the 2 districts decreased neonatal mortality from 30.1 to 19.4 deaths per 1,000 live births with maintenance of the lower mortality 12 months post-ABC (19.4 deaths per 1,000 live births, p = 0.7). Leadership buy-in and development of self-reliance encouraging internally generated solutions emerged as key factors to sustain improvements while staff turnover, famine, influx of refugees, and unintended consequences of new national newborn care policies threatened sustainability. Interpretation: Despite discontinuity of key ABC support, health facilities kept the momentum of good practices and were able to maintain or increase the level of prenatal, neonatal quality of care and outcomes over a period of 12 months following the end of initial ABC implementation. Additional studies are needed to determine the longer-term sustainability beyond one year.Evrard NahimanaHema MaggeFrancois BizimanaMerab NishimweChristina Thompson LivelyHannay GilbertBethany Hedt GauthierFelix SayinzogaFulgence NkikabahiziLisa R. HirschhornUbiquity PressarticleInfectious and parasitic diseasesRC109-216Public aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENAnnals of Global Health, Vol 87, Iss 1 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 Evrard Nahimana Hema Magge Francois Bizimana Merab Nishimwe Christina Thompson Lively Hannay Gilbert Bethany Hedt Gauthier Felix Sayinzoga Fulgence Nkikabahizi Lisa R. Hirschhorn Sustainability Assessment of a District-Wide Quality Improvement on Newborn Care Program in Rural Rwanda: A Mixed-Method Study
description	Background: Neonatal mortality continues to be a global challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. There is growing work to reduce mortality through improving quality of systems and care, but less is known about sustainability of improvements in the setting post initial implementation. We conducted a 12-month sustainability assessment of All Babies Count (ABC), a district-wide quality improvement project including mentoring and improvement collaborative designed to improve quality and reduce neonatal mortality in two districts in rural Rwanda. Methods: We measured changes in key neonatal process, coverage, and outcome indicators between the completion of ABC implementation and 12 months after the completion. In addition, we conducted 4 focus group discussions and 15 individual in-depth interviews with health providers and facility and district leaders to understand factors that influenced sustainability of improvements. We used an inductive, content analytic approach to derive six themes related to the ABC sustainability to explain quantitative results. Findings: Twelve months after the completion of ABC implementation, we found continued improvements in core quality, coverage, and neonatal outcomes. During ABC, the percentage of women with 4 antenatal visits increased from 12% to 30% and remained stable 12 months post-ABC (30%, p = 0.7) with an increase in facility-based delivery from 92.6% at the end of ABC to 95.8% (p = 0.01) at 12-month post-ABC. During ABC intervention, the 2 districts decreased neonatal mortality from 30.1 to 19.4 deaths per 1,000 live births with maintenance of the lower mortality 12 months post-ABC (19.4 deaths per 1,000 live births, p = 0.7). Leadership buy-in and development of self-reliance encouraging internally generated solutions emerged as key factors to sustain improvements while staff turnover, famine, influx of refugees, and unintended consequences of new national newborn care policies threatened sustainability. Interpretation: Despite discontinuity of key ABC support, health facilities kept the momentum of good practices and were able to maintain or increase the level of prenatal, neonatal quality of care and outcomes over a period of 12 months following the end of initial ABC implementation. Additional studies are needed to determine the longer-term sustainability beyond one year.
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author	Evrard Nahimana Hema Magge Francois Bizimana Merab Nishimwe Christina Thompson Lively Hannay Gilbert Bethany Hedt Gauthier Felix Sayinzoga Fulgence Nkikabahizi Lisa R. Hirschhorn
author_facet	Evrard Nahimana Hema Magge Francois Bizimana Merab Nishimwe Christina Thompson Lively Hannay Gilbert Bethany Hedt Gauthier Felix Sayinzoga Fulgence Nkikabahizi Lisa R. Hirschhorn
author_sort	Evrard Nahimana
title	Sustainability Assessment of a District-Wide Quality Improvement on Newborn Care Program in Rural Rwanda: A Mixed-Method Study
title_short	Sustainability Assessment of a District-Wide Quality Improvement on Newborn Care Program in Rural Rwanda: A Mixed-Method Study
title_full	Sustainability Assessment of a District-Wide Quality Improvement on Newborn Care Program in Rural Rwanda: A Mixed-Method Study
title_fullStr	Sustainability Assessment of a District-Wide Quality Improvement on Newborn Care Program in Rural Rwanda: A Mixed-Method Study
title_full_unstemmed	Sustainability Assessment of a District-Wide Quality Improvement on Newborn Care Program in Rural Rwanda: A Mixed-Method Study
title_sort	sustainability assessment of a district-wide quality improvement on newborn care program in rural rwanda: a mixed-method study
publisher	Ubiquity Press
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/8d2fb79b260c499ea5d64a17258ff909
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Sustainability Assessment of a District-Wide Quality Improvement on Newborn Care Program in Rural Rwanda: A Mixed-Method Study

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