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Measuring outpatient safety at scale: infection prevention and control practices in KenyaPrimum non nocere — first, do no harm. This most basic tenet of medical care is routinely violated in clinics and hospitals around the world today...
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Building the learning agenda: Spotlight on the Global Learning Laboratory for Quality Universal Health Coverage
Improving the delivery of quality health services is messy! Vast amounts of knowledge and experience is being generated daily. We need to help capture...
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Quality of routine labor and delivery care in Uttar Pradesh, India: Are private facilities better?
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...
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Improving health-care quality in resource-poor settingsImprovements 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...
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Assessing the quality of primary care in HaitiObjective 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)...
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Evaluation of a social franchising and telemedicine programme and the care provided for childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia, Bihar, IndiaObjective 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...
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Nurse-led HIV services and quality of care at health facilities in Kenya, 2014–2016Objective 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...
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Understanding and measuring quality of careExisting 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...
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Implementation research to improve quality of maternal and newborn health care, MalawiObjective 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...
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Observations of infection prevention and control practices in primary health care, KenyaObjective 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...
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Improving water, sanitation and hygiene in health-care facilities, LiberiaProblem 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...
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Measuring quality of careThe 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...
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Measuring quality of health-care servicesPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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Improving the quality of hospital care for children by supportive supervisionPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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Variation in quality of primary-care services in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and United Republic of TanzaniaPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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Quality of routine essential care during childbirthPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring quality of care
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