%0 Journal Article %T Barriers and facilitators to implementing a regional anesthesia service in a low-income country: a qualitative study %J Archive of "The Pan African Medical Journal". %D 2019 %R 10.11604/pamj.2019.32.152.17246 %X Regional anesthesia is a safe alternative to general anesthesia. Despite benefits for perioperative morbidity and mortality, this technique is underutilized in low-resource settings. In response to an identified need, a regional anesthesia service was established at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK), Rwanda. This qualitative study investigates the factors influencing implementation of this service in a low-resource tertiary-level teaching hospital %K Regional anesthesia %K global health %K knowledge translation %K consolidated framework for implementation research (CFIR) %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6607318/