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Makokha EP, Mwalili S, Basiye FL, et al. Using standard and institutional mentorship models to implement SLMTA in Kenya. Afr J Lab Med. 2014;3(2):220doi: 10.4102/ajlm.v3i2.220.
Makokha, E. P., Mwalili, S., Basiye, F. L., Zeh, C., Emonyi, W. I., Langat, R., Luman, E. T., & Mwangi, J. (2014). Using standard and institutional mentorship models to implement SLMTA in Kenya. African journal of laboratory medicine, 3(2), 220. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v3i2.220
Makokha, Ernest P, et al. "Using standard and institutional mentorship models to implement SLMTA in Kenya." African journal of laboratory medicine vol. 3,2 (2014): 220. doi: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v3i2.220
Makokha EP, Mwalili S, Basiye FL, Zeh C, Emonyi WI, Langat R, Luman ET, Mwangi J. Using standard and institutional mentorship models to implement SLMTA in Kenya. Afr J Lab Med. 2014 Nov 03;3(2):220. doi: 10.4102/ajlm.v3i2.220. eCollection 2014. PMID: 29043191; PMCID: PMC5637804.
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Afr J Lab Med. 2014 Nov 03;3(2):220. doi: 10.4102/ajlm.v3i2.220. eCollection 2014.

Using standard and institutional mentorship models to implement SLMTA in Kenya.

African journal of laboratory medicine

Ernest P Makokha, Samuel Mwalili, Frank L Basiye, Clement Zeh, Wilfred I Emonyi, Raphael Langat, Elizabeth T Luman, Jane Mwangi

Affiliations

  1. Division of Global HIV/AIDS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kenya.
  2. Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), Moi University School of Medicine, Kenya.
  3. Henry Jackson Foundation, Kenya.
  4. International Laboratory Branch, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States.

PMID: 29043191 PMCID: PMC5637804 DOI: 10.4102/ajlm.v3i2.220

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Kenya is home to several high-performing internationally-accredited research laboratories, whilst most public sector laboratories have historically lacked functioning quality management systems. In 2010, Kenya enrolled an initial eight regional and four national laboratories into the Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation (SLMTA) programme. To address the challenge of a lack of mentors for the regional laboratories, three were paired, or 'twinned', with nearby accredited research laboratories to provide institutional mentorship, whilst the other five received standard mentorship.

OBJECTIVES: This study examines results from the eight regional laboratories in the initial SLMTA group, with a focus on mentorship models.

METHODS: Three SLMTA workshops were interspersed with three-month periods of improvement project implementation and mentorship. Progress was evaluated at baseline, mid-term, and exit using the Stepwise Laboratory Quality Improvement Process Towards Accreditation (SLIPTA) audit checklist and scores were converted into a zero- to five-star scale.

RESULTS: At baseline, the mean score for the eight laboratories was 32%; all laboratories were below the one-star level. At mid-term, all laboratories had measured improvements. However, the three twinned laboratories had increased an average of 32 percentage points and reached one to three stars; whilst the five non-twinned laboratories increased an average of 10 percentage points and remained at zero stars. At exit, twinned laboratories had increased an average 12 additional percentage points (44 total), reaching two to four stars; non-twinned laboratories increased an average of 28 additional percentage points (38 total), reaching one to three stars.

CONCLUSION: The partnership used by the twinning model holds promise for future collaborations between ministries of health and state-of-the-art research laboratories in their regions for laboratory quality improvement. Where they exist, such laboratories may be valuable resources to be used judiciously so as to accelerate sustainable quality improvement initiated through SLMTA.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationship(s) that may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.

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