QuIC FIT Assessments

Clinical Expertise
Sierra Leone
2015
QuIC FIT provides a “snapshot” of facility readiness to provide emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) using a rapid, low resource, telephone based approach.

QuIC FIT provides a “snapshot” of facility readiness to provide emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) using a rapid, low resource, telephone based approach. QuIC FIT data are currently collected on a quarterly basis in four districts in Sierra Leone.QuIC FIT is complementary to the more resource intensive Facility Improvement Team (FIT) assessments, providing data about EmONC status at points in time between FIT visits.QuIC FIT gathers data about the same seven enablers for providing EmONC services as FIT, but focuses on the presence of enablers during the last 24 hours only. The seven EmONC enablers are:

  • Water and sanitation
  • Electricity
  • Referrals
  • Equipment
  • Laboratory
  • Staffing
  • Drugs

QuIC FIT also asks direct questions about the ability to perform the nine signal functions i.e. the functions essential to basic or comprehensive EmONC:

  • SF1a: Administer Parenteral antibiotics- mother
  • SF1b: Administer Parenteral antibiotics- newborn
  • SF2: Administer Uterotonic drugs (e.g. parenteral oxytocics, ergometrine  or misoprostol)
  • SF3: Parenteral anti-convulsants for eclampsia and pre-eclampsia (e.g. magnesium sulphate)
  • SF4: Manual removal of placenta
  • SF5: Removal of retained products
  • SF6: Assisted/ instrumental vaginal delivery
  • SF7: Neonatal resuscitation
  • SF8: Blood transfusion
  • SF9: Perform surgery

Since December 2014, QuIC FIT has been adapted to collect data on the readiness of facilities to provides safe services during an Ebola or infectious disease outbreak.The QuIC approach is also being piloted in Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi and Nigeria, where questionnaires are adapted to the country-specific context. In countries where data are collected by telephone app, it is now possible to transfer data directly to DHIS2.You can download QuIC FIT scorecards for May 2015 from the ‘Downloads’ box on the right.Ministry of Health and Sanitation [Sierra Leone]. (2015). QuIC FIT Assessments. Freetown: MoHS.

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Ministry of Health and Sanitation [Sierra Leone]. (2015). QuIC FIT Assessments. Freetown: MoHS.

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