Barriers to increase surgical productivity in Sierra Leone: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore factors influencing surgical provider productivity and identify barriers against and opportunities to increase individual surgical productivity in Sierra Leone, in order to explain the observed increase in unmet surgical need from 92.2% to 92.7% and the decrease in surgical productivity to 1.7 surgical procedures per provider per week between 2012 and 2017.

Design and methods

This explanatory qualitative study consisted of in-depth interviews about factors influencing surgical productivity in Sierra Leone. Interviews were analysed with a thematic network analysis and used to develop a conceptual framework.

Participants and setting

21 surgical providers and hospital managers working in 12 public and private non-profit hospitals in all regions in Si

SUBMITTER: Bakker J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8693091 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature