Clinical trial NCT04724122: Perioperative Care in Ethiopia
Official title: Perioperative Care Capacity - an Ethiopian National Cross-sectional Survey
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Perioperative Care
Lead sponsor: Network for Perioperative Critical Care
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Debre Berhan University
First posted: 2021-01-26
Enrollment: 81
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Clinicians working at facilities providing perioperative care e.g. working in surgery, anaesthesia or obstetrics, will be recruited to complete survey data pertaining to facility capacity and delivery of perioperative care. This will include infrastructure, capacity, workforce, service delivery.

Brief summary: A national cross-sectional survey of surgery and anaesthesia at Ethiopian public hospital facilities.

Detailed description: Incorporating elements from recognized surgical and anesthesia facility assessment tools the survey assesses surgery and anaesthesia at Ethiopian public hospital facilities.

The surveys assesses infrastructure, workforce, and availability of resources across all National facilities providing surgery.

An online national cross-sectional survey, designed through a consultative process involving senior clinicians - anesthesia providers, surgeons, and obstetricians.

Elements incorporated from existing tools, including the Safe Surgery Hospital Assessment Tool, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) Anaesthesia Facility Assessment Tool and the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Surgical Assessment Tool.

Survey questions grouped into themes: infrastructure, human resources, service delivery, and the availability of medications, equipment, and guidelines.

The final quantitative survey includes 77 questions, for distribution to clinicians at a convenience sample of government hospitals providing major surgical services. Private facilities are excluded.

The online survey link sent via the N4PCc collaborator network to clinicians at each site. All collaborators and clinicians are perioperative practitioners (anesthesia providers, surgeons, obstetricians, nurses) at their respective institutions. Additional facilities with no N4PCc collaborator contacted via the department of anesthesia at each institution. Telephone follow-up with non-responding hospitals to overcome barriers to completion, including assistance with data input where required.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Clinicians working at facilities providing perioperative care Clinicians working in surgery, anaesthesia or obstetrics These will be recruited to provide data on perioperative capacity at all facilities providing surgery nationally

Exclusion Criteria:

Clinicians working out-with perioperative care Facilities not providing surgical services

Primary outcomes:
measure: Perioperative care capacity
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Debre Birhan
country: Ethiopia
facility: Debre Birhan University
state: Amhara
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