Barriers and facilitators to providing facility-based emergency care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT: Illness and injury that may be impacted by emergency care account for over half of all deaths in low- and middle-income countries. However, studies show that Emergency Units in these countries face numerous barriers to facility-based emergency care. Yet, data on the barriers to facility-based emergency care in Ethiopia and some reasons for these barriers have not been established, and this study aimed to bridge this gap. The study followed an explanatory, sequential mixed-methods design. In phase one, a cross-sectional evaluation of five hospitals was done using WHO's Hospital Emergency Unit Assessment Tool (HEAT). A purposive sampling technique was used to select the hospitals, and a convenience sampling technique was used to determine the participants. Quantitative data were analysed des

SUBMITTER: Ambushe DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12361745 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature