Adaptation and validation of the Children's Surgical Assessment Tool for Rwandan district hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

Paediatric surgical care is a critical component of child health and basic universal health coverage and therefore should be included in comprehensive evaluations of surgical capacity. This study adapted and validated the Children's Surgical Assessment Tool (CSAT), a tool developed for district and tertiary hospitals in Nigeria to evaluate hospital infrastructure, workforce, service delivery, financing, and training capacity for paediatric surgery, for use in district hospitals in Rwanda.

Methods

We used a three-round modified Delphi process to adapt the CSAT to the Rwandan context. An expert panel of surgeons, anaesthesiologists, paediatricians, and health systems strengthening experts were invited to participate based on their experience with paediatric sur

SUBMITTER: Nuss S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10778412 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature