A national system for monitoring the performance of hospitals in Ethiopia

Zahirah McNatt ^a, Erika Linnander ^a, Abraham Endeshaw ^b, Dawit Tatek ^a, David Conteh ^c & Elizabeth H Bradley ^a

a. Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street, PO Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520-8034, United States of America.
b. Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
c. Clinton Health Access Initiative, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Correspondence to Elizabeth H Bradley (email: elizabeth.bradley@yale.edu).

(Submitted: 12 December 2014 – Revised version received: 22 June 2015 – Accepted: 23 June 2015 – Published online: 21 August 2015.)

Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2015;93:719-726. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.14.151399

Introduction

Improvement in the quality of hospital care is a fundamental aspect of health system strengthening^1–4 that is directly linked to the service delivery dimension of the World Health Organization (WHO) building blocks of a health system.⁵Read more