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Primum non nocere — first, do no harm. This most basic tenet of medical care is routinely violated in clinics and hospitals around the world today...

• Quality of care
• Health
• SDG3

Working Paper

The quality of care provided by health systems contributes towards efforts to reach sustainable development goal 3 on health and wellbeing. There is growing evidence that the impact of health interventions is undermined by poor quality of care in...

• Health interventions
• Health systems
• Quality of care

Working Paper

Objective: To analyse factors affecting variations in the observed quality of antenatal and sick-child care in primary-care facilities in seven African countries. Methods: We pooled nationally representative data from service provision assessment...

• Antenatal care
• Sick-child care
• Quality of care

Working Paper

Objective: To determine whether periodic supportive supervision after a training course improved the quality of paediatric hospital care in Kyrgyzstan, where inappropriate care was common but in-hospital postnatal mortality was low. Methods: In a...

• Cluster randomized trial
• Kyrgyzstan
• Paediatric hospital care

Working Paper

Objective: To assess the feasibility of applying the World Health Organization’s proposed 15 indicators of quality of care for maternal and newborn health at health-facility level in low- and middle-income settings. Methods: Six of the indicators are...

• Healthcare
• Maternal health
• Maternity services

Working Paper

Patient safety is a global public health issue, causing death and suffering in all types of patients and incurring costs in all countries. The global health community has made significant and sustained efforts to improve safety and quality of health...

• Global health
• Narratives of patient safety
• Quality of care

Working Paper

Objective: To evaluate the quality of essential care during normal labour and childbirth in maternity facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India. Methods: Between 26 May and 8 July 2015, we used clinical observations to assess care provision for 275 mother...

• Childbirth
• India
• Quality of care

Blog

by Nana Mensah Abrampah June 2017

Improving the delivery of quality health services is messy! Vast amounts of knowledge and experience is being generated daily. We need to help capture...

• Health
• Quality of care
• SDG3

Blog

by Sarah Hodin June 2017

In India, the percentage of women who delivered in a health facility increased from roughly 35% in 2000 to 79% in 2014. Despite this progress, given...

• Quality of care
• SDG3
• Healthcare

Journal Article

Improvements in health-care quality can contribute to healthier populations. However, many global and national health strategies are not sufficiently considering the issues of measuring and improving health-care quality in lowresource settings. The...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Objective To develop a composite measure of primary care quality and apply it to Haiti’s primary care system. Methods Using the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative’s framework, we defined four domains of primary care service delivery: (i)...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Objective To evaluate the impact on the quality of the care provided for childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia in Bihar, India, of a large-scale, social franchising and telemedicine programme – the World Health Partners’ Sky Program. Methods We...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Objective To develop a novel measure to characterize human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) programme quality at health facilities in Kenya and explore its associations with patient- and facility-level characteristics. Methods We developed a composite...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Existing definitions and measurement approaches of quality of health care often fail to address the complexities involved in understanding quality of care. It is perceptions of quality, rather than clinical indicators of quality, that drive service...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Objective To evaluate the impact of a performance-based financing scheme on maternal and neonatal health service quality in Malawi. Methods We conducted a non-randomized controlled before and after study to evaluate the effects of district- and...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Objective To assess compliance with infection prevention and control practices in primary health care in Kenya. Methods We used an observational, patient-tracking tool to assess compliance with infection prevention and control practices by 1680...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Problem The lack of proper water and sanitation infrastructures and poor hygiene practices in health-care facilities reduces facilities’ preparedness and response to disease outbreaks and decreases the communities’ trust in the health services...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Special Issue

The United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG) 3 seeks “to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all and at all ages”. To build healthcare systems that were able to progress towards the millennium development goals, many countries...

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage

Policy Brief

• Health
• SDG3
• Universal Health Coverage