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Essential aspects of external quality assurance for point-of-care testing

Biochemia Medica, 2017
External quality assurance (EQA) or proficiency testing for point-of-care (POC) testing is in principle similar to EQA for larger hospital laboratories, but the participants are different. The participants are usually health care personnel with little or
A. Stavelin, S. Sandberg
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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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Introduction of Syphilis Point-of-Care Tests, from Pilot Study to National Programme Implementation in Zambia: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Workers’ Perspectives on Testing, Training and Quality Assurance

PLoS ONE, 2015
Syphilis affects 1.4 million pregnant women globally each year. Maternal syphilis causes congenital syphilis in over half of affected pregnancies, leading to early foetal loss, pregnancy complications, stillbirth and neonatal death.
Éimhín Ansbro, M. Gill, J. Reynolds, K. Shelley, S. Strasser, Tabitha Sripipatana, A. Ncube, Grace Tembo Mumba, F. Terris-Prestholt, R. Peeling, D. Mabey   +10 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 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
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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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Health Care Service Quality and Its Impact on Patient Satisfaction “Case of Al-Bashir Hospital”

, 2017
This study aimed to measure the impact of perceived health care service quality on patient satisfaction at a major government hospital in Jordan. For this purpose, the study developed an instrument based on modified ‘SERVQUAL’ using five service quality ...
R. Al-Damen
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A Rapid Assessment of the Quality of Neonatal Healthcare in Kilimanjaro Region, Northeast Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2012
While child mortality is declining in Africa there has been no evidence of a comparable reduction in neonatal mortality. The quality of inpatient neonatal care is likely a contributing factor but data from resource limited settings are few. The objective
AB Pembe, AS Nyamtema, Bernard Mbwele, C Klingenberg, C Opondo, CA Petti, CA Petti, CR Polage, D Acolet, DE Dow, E Ahman, Elizabeth Reddy, H Reyburn, HL Kidanto, HL Kidanto, Hugh Reyburn, J Newman, JE Lawn, JE Lawn, JK Rajaratnam, JM Belizan, K Gross, K Gross, K Manji, L Liu, LF Mott, M English, M English, M Mrisho, M Sarker, N Iriya, N Opiyo, R Lozano, SC Anyangwe, SG Hinderaker, SK Gaise, T Duke, UNICEF, United Nations Development Programme UNDP Tanzania, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, ZA Bhutta   +42 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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Tracking the Quality of Care for Sick Children Using Lot Quality Assurance Sampling: Targeting Improvements of Health Services in Jigawa, Nigeria

PLoS ONE, 2012
Background In Nigeria, 30% of child deaths are due to malaria. The National Malaria Control Program of Nigeria (NMCP) during 2009 initiated a program to improve the quality of paediatric malaria services delivered in health facilities (HF).
E. Oladele, Louise Ormond, O. Adeyemi, David Patrick, Festus Okoh, O. Oresanya, J. Valadez   +6 more
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