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Continuous quality improvement interventions to improve long-term outcomes of antiretroviral therapy in women who initiated therapy during pregnancy or breastfeeding in the Democratic Republic of Congo: design of an open-label, parallel, group randomized trial.
- Source :
- BMC Health Services Research; 4/26/2017, Vol. 17, p1-7, 7p, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- <bold>Background: </bold>Despite the rapid adoption of the World Health Organization's 2013 guidelines, children continue to be infected with HIV perinatally because of sub-optimal adherence to the continuum of HIV care in maternal and child health (MCH) clinics. To achieve the UNAIDS goal of eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission, multiple, adaptive interventions need to be implemented to improve adherence to the HIV continuum.<bold>Methods: </bold>The aim of this open label, parallel, group randomized trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) interventions implemented at facility and health district levels to improve retention in care and virological suppression through 24 months postpartum among pregnant and breastfeeding women receiving ART in MCH clinics in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Prior to randomization, the current monitoring and evaluation system will be strengthened to enable collection of high quality individual patient-level data necessary for timely indicators production and program outcomes monitoring to inform CQI interventions. Following randomization, in health districts randomized to CQI, quality improvement (QI) teams will be established at the district level and at MCH clinics level. For 18 months, QI teams will be brought together quarterly to identify key bottlenecks in the care delivery system using data from the monitoring system, develop an action plan to address those bottlenecks, and implement the action plan at the level of their district or clinics.<bold>Discussion: </bold>If proven to be effective, CQI as designed here, could be scaled up rapidly in resource-scarce settings to accelerate progress towards the goal of an AIDS free generation.<bold>Trial Registration: </bold>The protocol was retrospectively registered on February 7, 2017. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03048669 . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PERINATALLY-acquired HIV infections
CONTINUUM of care
CLINICS
VIROLOGY
HIV infection transmission
ANTIRETROVIRAL agents
MEDICAL care standards
BREASTFEEDING
COMMUNICABLE diseases
COMPARATIVE studies
EXPERIMENTAL design
HIV infections
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL cooperation
PREGNANCY complications
PUERPERIUM
QUALITY assurance
RESEARCH
RESEARCH funding
EVALUATION research
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
TREATMENT effectiveness
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14726963
- Volume :
- 17
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- BMC Health Services Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 122738712
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2253-9