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Development of standardized laboratory methods and quality processes for a phase III study of the RTS, S/AS01 candidate malaria vaccine. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND\ud \ud A pivotal phase III study of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria candidate vaccine is ongoing in several research centres across Africa. The development and establishment of quality systems was a requirement for trial conduct to meet international ...
Adriano Duse, Andrea Reijman, Barbara Savarese, Bernhards Ogutu, Brenda Okech, Brian Greenwood, Charlotte Ingram, Chris Drakeley, Christine Swysen, Johan Vekemans, John Frean, Myriam Bruls, null null, Opokua Ofori-Anyinam, Peter Kremsner, Sunny Oyakhirome, Terrell Carter, Tonya Villafana   +17 more
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If you can’t measure it- you can’t change it – a longitudinal study on improving quality of care in hospitals and health centers in rural Kenya

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The Kenyan Ministry of Health- Department of Standards and Regulations sought to operationalize the Kenya Quality Assurance Model for Health.
Michael Marx, Christine Nitschke, Maureen Nafula, Mabel Nangami, Marc Brodowski, Irmgard Marx, Helen Prytherch, Charles Kandie, Irene Omogi, Friederike Paul-Fariborz, Joachim Szecsenyi   +10 more
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Learning and improving in long-term care internationally: the International Prevalence Measurement of Care Quality (LPZ)

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, 2022
Long-term care (LTC) for older adults is an essential part of how health and social care systems respond to population ageing. Different long-term care systems in different countries have taken differing approaches to quality assurance, ranging from ...
Irma H.J. Everink, Adam L. Gordon, Suzanne Rijcken, Selvedina Osmancevic, Jos M.G.A. Schols   +4 more
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The WHO AFRO external quality assessment programme (EQAP): Linking laboratory networks through EQA programmes [PDF]

, 2016
External Quality Assessment (EQA) surveys performed by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) revealed the need for the strengthening of public health microbiology laboratories, particularly for testing of epidemic-prone ...
Boeras, DI, Gumede-Moeletsi, HN, Ndihokubwayo, JB, Onyebujoh, P, Peeling, RW, Yahaya, AA   +5 more
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Quality assurance of health management information system in Kayunga district, Uganda

African Evaluation Journal, 2018
Background: An efficient health management information system (HMIS) improves health care delivery and outcomes. However, in most rural settings in Uganda, paper-based HMIS are widely used to monitor public health care services.
Harriet R. Kagoya, Dan Kibuule
doaj   +1 more source

Partnerships for skills training in the care home sector [PDF]

, 2009
Aim: This paper describes an initiative in North East London that aimed to facilitate access to training for care-home staff by using a mobile skills-centre in the form of an adapted bus.
Anne Levington, Clelland, Dudman, Henwood, Julie Cooper, Julienne Meyer, Kirkwood, Logan, Meyer, Morrell, Nicol, Stephen Abbott, Wild   +12 more
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Quality assurance in mental health: A case study of the Life Esidimeni tragedy

South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2018
Introduction: Mental health has been included in the Sustainable Development Goals and quality assurance is needed to ensure its achievement. To date, more than 140 people with severe mental illness have died in the Life Esidimeni tragedy.
Lesley J. Robertson, Malegapuru W. Makgoba   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The costs of accessible quality assured syphilis diagnostics: informing quality systems for rapid syphilis tests in a Tanzanian setting. [PDF]

, 2013
OBJECTIVES: To determine the costs of Rapid Syphilis Test (RSTs) as compared with rapid plasma reagin (RPR) when implemented in a Tanzanian setting, and to determine the relative impact of a quality assurance (QA) system on the cost of RST implementation.
Changalucha, John, Kelly, Helen, Mosha, Jacklin F, Peeling, Rosanna W, Sollis, Kimberly A, Sweeney, Sedona, Terris-Prestholt, Fern   +6 more
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Quality Assurance of Health Wearables Data: Participatory Workshop on Barriers, Solutions, and Expectations

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2020
BackgroundThe ubiquity of health wearables and the consequent production of patient-generated health data (PGHD) are rapidly escalating. However, the utilization of PGHD in routine clinical practices is still low because of data quality issues.
Abdolkhani, Robab, Gray, Kathleen, Borda, Ann, DeSouza, Ruth   +3 more
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Private sector delivery of health services in developing countries: a mixed-methods study on quality assurance in social franchises

BMC Health Services Research, 2013
Background Across the developing world health care services are most often delivered in the private sector and social franchising has emerged, over the past decade, as an increasingly popular method of private sector health care delivery.
Schlein Karen, De La Cruz Anna York, Gopalakrishnan Tisha, Montagu Dominic   +3 more
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