Good practices to optimise the performance of maternal and neonatal quality improvement teams: Results from a longitudinal qualitative evaluation in South Africa, before, and during COVID-19

• Willem Odendaal ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: willem.odendaal@mrc.ac.za

  Affiliations HIV and Other Infectious Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-7283

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• Mark Tomlinson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Life Course Health Research, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queens University, Belfast, United Kingdom

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• Ameena Goga,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations HIV and Other Infectious Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Yages Singh,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation HIV and Other Infectious Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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• Shuaib Kauchali,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Community Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Carol Marshall,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation South African National Department of Health, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Yogan Pillay,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinton Health Access Initiative, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa (formerly), Division of Public Health and Health Systems, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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• Manala Makua,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations South African National Department of Health, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Terusha Chetty ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TC and XH are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations HIV and Other Infectious Diseases Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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• Xanthe Hunt

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TC and XH are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Institute for Life Course Health Research, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa Health Research Institute, Somkhele, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

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