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Measuring quality of health-care services
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Measuring quality of care

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...

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Measuring quality of health-care services

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Improving the quality of hospital care for children by supportive supervision

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Variation in quality of primary-care services in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and United Republic of Tanzania

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Quality of routine essential care during childbirth

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Records of medical malpractice litigation

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A geospatial evaluation of timely access to surgical care in seven countries

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Developing global indicators for quality of maternal and newborn care

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Community-based approaches for neonatal survival

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Quality of care

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Maternal and neonatal services in Ethiopia

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Changing the narratives for patient safety

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Measuring outpatient safety at scale: infection prevention and control practices in Kenya

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...

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Quality of care

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...

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Variation in quality of primary-care services in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania

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...

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