About CLICQ!

The Clinic-Lab Interface Continuous Quality Improvement (CLICQ!) program developed as a natural extension of the Laboratory African Regional Collaborative (LARC). LARC is an HIV service delivery program that similarly focuses on the interface between clinics and laboratories. CLICQ! was developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in partnership with APIN and piloted in Nigeria.

CLICQ! guides healthcare workers and laboratory staff through review of their clinic-laboratory data and identifies gaps within their TB patient cascade. Participants attend learning sessions to receive training on continuous quality improvement (CQI) practices, data review, and other strengthening activities. Site-specific improvement projects are developed that target prioritized gaps for closure. A metric-based monitoring and evaluation plan is developed, in parallel with the improvement projects, to track on-site progress of improvement projects. The program aims to build the capacity of national-, state-, local- and facility-level staff for enhanced data use and to strengthen site-specific gaps that reside at any step within the patient pathway, or diagnostic cascade.