Clinical emergency care quality indicators in Africa: a scoping review and data summary.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Emergency care services are rapidly expanding in Africa; however, development must focus on quality. The African Federation of Emergency Medicine consensus conference (AFEM-CC)-based quality indicators were published in 2018. This study sought to increase knowledge of quality through identifying all publications from Africa containing data relevant to the AFEM-CC process clinical and outcome quality indicators.

Design

We conducted searches for general quality of emergency care in Africa and for each of 28 AFEM-CC process clinical and five outcome clinical quality indicators individually in the medical and grey literature.

Data sources

PubMed (1964-2 January 2022), Embase (1947-2 January 2022) and CINAHL (1982-3 January 2022) and various forms of grey litera

SUBMITTER: Pickering AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163454 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature