Helen Noble, Joanna Smith
Evaluating the quality of research is essential if findings are to be utilised in practice and incorporated into care delivery. In a previous article we explored 'bias' across research designs and outlined strategies to minimise bias. Concepts such as reliability, validity and generalisability typic...
Greg Irving, Ana Luísa Neves, Hajira Dambha‐Miller, Ai Oishi et al.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the average primary care physician consultation length in economically developed and low-income/middle-income countries, and to examine the relationship between consultation length and organisational-level economic, and health outcomes. DESIGN AND OUTCOME MEASURES: This is a s...
Dewan Md Emdadul Hoque, Varuni Kumari, Masuma Hoque, Rasa Ruseckaite et al.
BACKGROUND: Clinical quality registries (CQRs) are playing an increasingly important role in improving health outcomes and reducing health care costs. CQRs are established with the purpose of monitoring quality of care, providing feedback, benchmarking performance, describing pattern of treatment, r...
Hannah H. Leslie, Donna Spiegelman, Xin Zhou, Margaret E. Kruk
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the service readiness of health facilities in Bangladesh, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. METHODS: Using existing data from service provision assessments of the health systems of the 10 study countries, we calc...
Debra Singh, Joel Negin, Michael Otim, Christopher Garimoi Orach et al.
INTRODUCTION: Community health workers (CHWs) have been proposed as a means for bridging gaps in healthcare delivery in rural communities. Recent CHW programmes have been shown to improve child and neonatal health outcomes, and it is increasingly being suggested that paid CHWs become an integral par...
Abimbola Olaniran, Barbara Madaj, Sarah Bar-Zev, Nynke van den Broek
INTRODUCTION: A variety of community health workers (CHWs) provide maternal and newborn health (MNH) services in low-income and middle-income settings. However, there is a need for a better understanding of the diversity in type of CHW in each setting and responsibility, role, training duration and ...
Reinhold Gruen, Raqibul Anwar, Tahmina Begum, James R Killingsworth et al.
This paper analyses the system of financial and non-financial incentives underlying job preferences of doctors in Bangladesh who work both in government health services and in private practice. The study is based on a survey of 100 government-employed doctors with private practice, across different ...
Ulysses Panisset, Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos, Ahmad H. Alkhatib, Tomás Pantoja et al.
A major obstacle to the progress of the Millennium Development Goals has been the inability of health systems in many low- and middle-income countries to effectively implement evidence-informed interventions. This article discusses the relationships between implementation research and knowledge tran...
Chris van Weel, Ryuki Kassai, Waris Qidwai, Raman Kumar et al.
Primary healthcare is considered an essential feature of health systems to secure population health and contain costs of healthcare while universal health coverage forms a key to secure access to care. This paper is based on a workshop at the 2016 World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) South A...
Aleksandra Jonkisz, Piotr Karniej, Dorota Krasowska
INTRODUCTION: The Servqual (an acronym from the words "service" and "quality") method is used to assess the quality of provided services on the basis of standardised evaluation parameters. This method is based on five gaps resulting from the discrepancy between expected and received service quality....
Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, Nafia Farzana Chowdhury, Naoki Hashimoto, Daisuke Fujisawa et al.
Introduction The pattern of care seeking of psychiatric patients is important for service and policy issues. We conducted a study in 2008 in Bangladesh to find out the referral patterns, delays to reach mental health professional (MHP), diagnoses and treatment received before reaching psychiatric ca...
Keith E. Mandel, Uma R. Kotagal
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether aligning design characteristics of a pay-for-performance program with objectives of an asthma improvement collaborative builds improvement capability and accelerates improvement. DESIGN: Interrupted time series analysis of the impact of pay for performance on results ...
Sara McLafferty, Sue C. Grady
We compared levels of geographic access to prenatal clinics in Brooklyn, NY, between immigrant and US-born mothers and among immigrant groups by country of birth. We used birth data to characterize the spatial distribution of mothers and kernel estimation to measure clinic density within a 2-mile ra...
Md. Ruhul Kabir
BACKGROUND: Equitable maternal healthcare service access and it's optimum utilization remains a challenge for many developing countries like Bangladesh, and different predisposing, enabling, and need-based factors affect the level of maternal healthcare use. The evidently poor maternal healthcare se...
Colin R Simpson, Philip C Hannaford, David Williams
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether sex, age, and deprivation inequalities existed in the prescription of secondary preventive treatment for coronary heart disease (CHD) in Scottish general practice and whether these differences altered over time. DESIGN: 6 year cross sectional study based on general...