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Posted on: May 25, 2017 - Journal Articles
Improving voluntary medical male circumcision standards adherence and post-procedure follow-up in Uganda: A mixed methods study
Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has been demonstrated to reduce the transmission of HIV by 60% from HIV-positive women to HIV-negative men. Scaling up VMMC services requires that they be of high quality, socially accepted, and effective. ASSIST ... -
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Posted on: May 5, 2017 - Journal Articles
Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention for obstetric and neonatal care in selected public health facilities across six states of India
In India, in recent years, there has been a great increase in the number of women delivering in health facilities; however, the quality of obstetric and neonatal care within these facilities is often quite poor, which contributes to continuing high rates ... -
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Posted on: April 7, 2017 - Journal Articles
Screening in Maternity to Ascertain Tuberculosis Status Study: Study Protocol
This study protocol was published to provide other researchers with access to the methodology and to provide background for a planned follow-up publication with the findings of the actual study. The study, conducted in Swaziland in 2016, evaluated the ... -
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Posted on: February 8, 2017 - Journal Articles
Quality Improvement in Intensive Care Medicine: Leveraging Teamwork to Improve and Optimize Care Delivery
Intensive care medicine is complex, quick-moving, and often requires the involvement of many separate actors working in concert to provide safe, quality care to patients in life-threatening or dangerous situations. Evidence-based practices may be well ... -
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Posted on: January 12, 2017 - Journal Articles
What do we mean by innovation in healthcare?
Just as in other modern industries, the term ‘innovation’ in healthcare has become associated with any developments in the field done in new, better, or more effective ways. Innovation—a buzzword lifted from the business, technology, and marketing ... -
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Posted on: November 22, 2016 - Journal Articles
Evaluation of an Intervention to Improve Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care Access and Quality in Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Despite improvements in health-care utilization, disadvantages persist among rural, less educated, and indigenous populations in Ecuador. The United States Agency for International Development-funded Cotopaxi Project created a provincial-level network of ... -
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Posted on: November 22, 2016 - Journal Articles
Effectiveness and Efficiency of Improving HIV Service Provision for Key Populations in Nicaragua
HIV in Nicaragua is concentrated among key populations – men who have sex with men, female sex workers, and female transgender – in whom prevalence is 600–4,000 times higher than the general population. The United States Agency for International ... -
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Posted on: November 10, 2016 - Journal Articles
Why Economic Analysis of Health System Improvement Interventions Matters
There is little evidence to direct health systems toward providing efficient interventions to address medical errors, defined as an unintended act of omission or commission or one not executed as intended that may or may not cause harm to the patient but ... -
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Posted on: September 23, 2016 - Journal Articles
Cost-effectiveness of implementing the chronic care model for HIV care in Uganda
"Cost-effectiveness of implementing the chronic care model for HIV care in Uganda", a new journal article by Edward Broughton, Martin Muhire, Esther Karamagi, Herbert Kisamba, was recently published in the International Journal for Quality in ... -
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Posted on: August 4, 2016 - Journal Articles
Delivery of isoniazid preventive therapy to reduce occupational TB among healthcare workers in Swaziland
Healthcare workers (HCWs) in Swaziland are at increased risk of acquiring tuberculosis (TB), but existing infection control and occupational health policies often fall short of mitigating the risk of acquiring TB in the workplace. Health service failure ...
