Quality assurance practices in tuberculosis diagnostic health facilities in Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The quality of tuberculosis laboratory services in health facilities is a mandatory component of detecting active pulmonary TB cases and treatment follow-up. However, ensuring the quality of laboratory test results is a concern. This study aimed to assess the quality assurance practices in the tuberculosis diagnostic health facilities of Ethiopia.

Materials and methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2018 to March 2019 at nine governmental TB-culture laboratories and 34 randomly selected GeneXpert® MTB/RIF (Xpert® MTB/RIF) testing health facilities in Ethiopia. Participating health facilities were interviewed and laboratory documents and records present since 2017 were observed. Prior to the data collection, training was given to the data coll

SUBMITTER: Abebaw Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9182608 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature