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Quality of primary care from patients’ perspective: a cross sectional study of outpatients’ experience in public health facilities in rural Malawi
BACKGROUND: Assessing patients' experience with primary care complements measures of clinical health outcomes in evaluating service performance. Measuring patients' experience …
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Quality of perinatal depression care in primary care setting in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Even though integrating mental health into maternal and child health (MCH) is widely accepted as a means of closing …
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Admissions and surgery as indicators of hospital functions in Sierra Leone during the west-African Ebola outbreak
BACKGROUND: In an attempt to assess the effects of the Ebola viral disease (EVD) on hospital functions in Sierra Leone, …
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Costs incurred by outpatients at a university hospital in northwestern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Out-of-pocket expenditure constitutes high proportion of healthcare spending in low-income countries. It can affect patients' adherence to treatments leading …
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Creating spaces for dialogue: a cluster-randomized evaluation of CARE’s Community Score Card on health governance outcomes
BACKGROUND: Social accountability interventions such as CARE's Community Score Card© show promise for improving sexual, reproductive, and maternal health outcomes. …
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Quality of antenatal care services in Rwanda: assessing practices of health care providers
BACKGROUND: Although most pregnant women in Rwanda visit antenatal care (ANC) clinics, little has been studied about the quality of …
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Understanding key drivers of performance in the provision of maternal health services in eastern cape, South Africa: a systems analysis using group model building
BACKGROUND: The Eastern Cape Province reports among the poorest health service indicators in South Africa with some of its districts …
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Disaster preparedness and response capacity of regional hospitals in Tanzania: a descriptive cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Tanzania has witnessed several disasters in the past decade, which resulted in substantial mortality, long-term morbidity, and significant socio-economic …
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Contraception and abortion knowledge, attitudes and practices among adolescents from low and middle-income countries: a systematic review
BACKGROUND: Adolescents face significant barriers to contraception access and utilization that result in adverse health effects of early pregnancy and …
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Feasibility, acceptability and potential sustainability of a ‘diagonal’ approach to health services for female sex workers in Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Female sex workers (FSWs) in many settings have restricted access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. We therefore …
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Implementing large-scale health system strengthening interventions: experience from the better health outcomes through mentoring and assessments (BHOMA) project in Zambia
BACKGROUND: Under the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's African Health Initiative, five Population Health Implementation and Training partnerships were established as …
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Establishing Sexual Assault Care Centres in Belgium: health professionals’ role in the patient-centred care for victims of sexual violence
BACKGROUND: Having ratified the Convention of Istanbul, the Belgian federal government commits itself to the foundation of Sexual Assault Care …
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“It’s a precious gift, not to waste”: is routine cross matching necessary in orthopedics surgery? Retrospective study of 699 patients in 9 different procedures
BACKGROUND: Orthopedic surgeries are usually associated with excessive blood loss which leads surgeons to overestimate need for blood transfusions and …
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Impact of results-based financing on effective obstetric care coverage: evidence from a quasi-experimental study in Malawi
BACKGROUND: Results-based financing (RBF) describes health system approaches addressing both service quality and use. Effective coverage is a metric measuring …
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Access to assistive technology in two Southern African countries
BACKGROUND: Millions of people in Southern Africa are deprived of basic human rights such as the right to education and …
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A prospective observational study of drug therapy problems in medical ward of a referral hospital in northeast Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Drug therapy problem is any undesirable event experienced by a patient during drug therapy that interferes with achieving the …
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Role of maternity waiting homes in the reduction of maternal death and stillbirth in developing countries and its contribution for maternal death reduction in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Every family expect to have a healthy mother and new born baby after pregnancy. Especially for parents, pregnancy is …
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Assessment of adolescent and youth friendly services in primary healthcare facilities in two provinces in South Africa
BACKGROUND: Health services for adolescents are increasingly recognised as a priority in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Adolescent and …
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Characteristics of patients with thromboembolic disorders on warfarin therapy in resource limited settings
BACKGROUND: Warfarin is a drug with narrow therapeutic index used in the management of thromboembolic disorders. Several factors affect its …
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HIV partner services in Kenya: a cost and budget impact analysis study
BACKGROUND: The elicitation of contact information, notification and testing of sex partners of HIV infected patients (aPS), is an effective …