Effect of performance review and clinical mentoring meetings (PRCMM) on recording of community case management by health extension workers in Ethiopia.

Background: The Performance Review and Clinical Mentoring Meeting (PRCMM) is an approach to improve and sustain Health Extension Worker (HEW) skills and performance in integrated Community Case Management (iCCM).

Objective: To compare HEW performance in recording case management before and after they participated in PRCMM.

Methods: We conducted a historical cohort analysis of iCCM case records between September 2010 and December 2012 from 622 randomly selected health posts representing 31 intervention woredas (districts) of Amhara, Oromia and Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples' Regions.

Utilization of integrated community case management services in three regions in Ethiopia after two years of implementation.

Background: The integrated community case management (iCCM) strategy has brought fully integrated treatment for sick children to the community in Ethiopia since 2010.

Objectives: To describe patterns of use of iCCM services in 31 woredas (districts) in three regions of Ethiopia.

Methods: We analyzed all 60,452 encounters (58,341 [98.