Section 5.5 · Pillar 1 · Clinical Excellence, Patient Safety & Quality of Care
Clinical Quality and Standardized Care Pathways
Standardized, evidence-based clinical pathways adapted to the Nigerian context, with training and compliance monitoring.
The issue
Clinical outcomes improve when hospitals use standardized, evidence-based pathways adapted to the Nigerian context. Priority pathways should include emergency care, maternal and neonatal emergencies, sepsis, stroke, acute coronary syndrome, trauma, malaria and infectious diseases, diabetes, hypertension, perioperative care, critical care, blood transfusion, and antimicrobial stewardship.
Priority components
What good looks like in this domain, expressed as the components an institution should be able to show.
- 01Emergency care
- 02Maternal and neonatal emergencies
- 03Sepsis
- 04Stroke
- 05Acute coronary syndrome
- 06Trauma
- 07Malaria and infectious diseases
- 08Diabetes
- 09Hypertension
- 10Perioperative care
- 11Critical care
- 12Blood transfusion
- 13Antimicrobial stewardship
Implementation
What this domain requires in practice: the standard, the pack, the measurement, the tools and the evidence.
Standards
No approved ASQAT standards have been published for this domain yet. The standards layer is in place so that approved statements can be released without restructuring the platform.
Measurement
Measurement specifications for this domain are being developed. Indicator definitions are published only once the numerator, denominator and data source are agreed.
Measurement frameworkResources
Implementation resources for this domain are currently in development. Approved policies, procedures, checklists and tools will be released through the resource library.
Open the libraryAwaiting approved content
Evidence in practice
No approved implementation evidence has been published for this domain yet. Case studies are published only after review of what was measured and how.