2015
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136966
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Effect of Educational Outreach Timing and Duration on Facility Performance for Infectious Disease Care in Uganda: A Trial with Pre-Post and Cluster Randomized Controlled Components

Abstract: BackgroundClassroom-based learning is often insufficient to ensure high quality care and application of health care guidelines. Educational outreach is garnering attention as a supplemental method to enhance health care worker capacity, yet there is little information about the timing and duration required to improve facility performance. We sought to evaluate the effects of an infectious disease training program followed by either immediate or delayed on-site support (OSS), an educational outreach approach, o… Show more

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“…Toolkits for quality improvement of education in community facilities (Malik et al, 2007), workplace learning, and learning communities may offer additional strategies for skill and knowledge acquisition by university and community-based faculty and volunteers (Chou et al, 2014;Lloyd et al, 2014;O'Sullivan and Irby, 2011). On-site training that allows workers at understaffed organizations to remain at the workplace for training is a viable option, particularly for low-resource settings (Burnett et al, 2015).…”
Section: Faculty Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Toolkits for quality improvement of education in community facilities (Malik et al, 2007), workplace learning, and learning communities may offer additional strategies for skill and knowledge acquisition by university and community-based faculty and volunteers (Chou et al, 2014;Lloyd et al, 2014;O'Sullivan and Irby, 2011). On-site training that allows workers at understaffed organizations to remain at the workplace for training is a viable option, particularly for low-resource settings (Burnett et al, 2015).…”
Section: Faculty Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…9 We report the results for HIV clinical practice; results on clinical competence, pediatric clinical practice, and facility performance were previously reported. [10][11][12][13][14]…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%