Beyond checklists: Using clinic ethnography to assess the enabling environment for tuberculosis infection prevention control in South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Sub-optimal implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) measures for airborne infections is associated with a rise in healthcare-acquired infections. Research examining contributing factors has tended to focus on poor infrastructure or lack of health care worker compliance with recommended guidelines, with limited consideration of the working environments within which IPC measures are implemented. Our analysis of compromised tuberculosis (TB)-related IPC in South Africa used clinic ethnography to elucidate the enabling environment for TB-IPC strategies. Using an ethnographic approach, we conducted observations, semi-structured interviews, and informal conversations with healthcare staff in six primary health clinics in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between November 2018 and Apri

SUBMITTER: Arakelyan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022266 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature