"Quality teaches you how to use water. It doesn't provide a water pump": a qualitative study of context and mechanisms of action in an Ethiopian quality improvement program

• Main Authors: F Procureur (Author), AS Estifanos (Author), DW Keraga (Author), AK Kiflie Alemayehu (Author), NW Hailemariam (Author), J Schellenberg (Author), H Magge (Author), Z Hill (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Quality improvement collaboratives are a common approach to bridging the quality-of-care gap, but little is known about implementation in low-income settings. Implementers rarely consider mechanisms of change or the role of context, which may explain collaboratives' varied i...