African Health Profession Regulatory Collaborative
This article describes the African Health Regulatory Collaborative for Nurses and Midwives, a four-year initiative to increase the collaboration among national stakeholders and help strengthen the...
View ArticleAssessing Fitness to Practice of Overseas-Trained Health Practitioners by...
Assessment of fitness-to-practice of health professionals trained overseas and who wish to practice in Australia is undertaken by a range of organisations. The purpose of the current paper is to...
View ArticleRegulation of the Non-Medical Healthcare Professions
This document deals with the regulation of health care professionals other than doctors to strengthen procedures for ensuring the performance of non-medical health professionals and other health...
View ArticleDeveloping Competencies and Professional Standards for Health Promotion...
Within this document is a set of competencies for Europe, a set of professional standards and a proposal for an accreditation system that will work to ensure greater quality, consistency and...
View ArticleHuman Resources Collaborative: Improving Maternal and Child Care in Niger
This report details the results and impact of a human resources for health quality improvement intervention in Niger. The approach focused on teaching evidence-based human resources interventions that...
View ArticlePrivate Sector Delivery of Health Services in Developing Countries: A...
The aim of this study was to better understand the quality assurance systems currently utilized in social franchises that deliver private sector health care, and to determine if there are shared...
View ArticlePatient Safety and Quality Improvement Education: A Cross-Sectional Study of...
The authors surveyed medical students to assess preferences and attitudes about quality improvement and patient safety education to determine how these important skills could best be integrated into...
View ArticleUnregulated and Unaccountable: How the Private Health Care Sector in India is...
This document argues that the gap left by the public health system combined with a government policy of proactively promoting the private sector has led to the proliferation of private health providers...
View ArticleAspirations for Quality Health Care in Uganda: How Do We Get There?
The authors undertook a qualitative study, along with a large census and health-provider survey in to understand priorities for quality in health care from the perspectives of health workers and...
View ArticleChecklist for Identifying Determinants of Practice: A Systematic Review and...
Determinants of practice are factors that might prevent or enable improvements. Several checklists, frameworks, taxonomies, and classifications of determinants of healthcare professional practice have...
View ArticleHealth Systems Strengthening Case Study: Demonstration Project to Strengthen...
This report outlines a project to apply a quality improvement approach to Ethiopia’s Health Extension Program, which was designed to improve access and utilization of quality preventive, promotive and...
View ArticleAccreditation in a Sub Saharan Medical School: A Case Study at Makerere...
This analysis paper highlights the process of standard defining for Medical Education in a typically low resourced sub Saharan medial school environment. [from abstract]
View ArticleSupervising Healthcare Services Learning Resource Package
This learning resource package for supervisors in medium-to-large facilities and for district-level supervisors is developed around aspects of performance improvement and quality of healthcare...
View ArticleCreating Effective Quality-Improvement Collaboratives: A Multiple Case Study
This study involves an evaluation of a quality-improvement programme for the long-term care in The Netherlands and deals with seven quality-improvement collaboratives focusing on patient safety and...
View ArticleRegulation and Licensing of Healthcare Professionals: A Review of...
This review describes international trends and approaches to regulatory and licensing systems and the integration of overseas trained healthcare professionals, including international medical...
View ArticleAccreditation of Healthcare Professional Education Programs: A Review of...
This review of accreditation for healthcare professionals training and education describes international trends and approaches to the accreditation of education programs or pathways that prepare...
View ArticleRegulation and Licensing of Healthcare Professionals in Pacific Island Countries
This brief discusses the need for registration and licensing and their importance to health outcomes, as well as the options and policy implications of such a system for Pacific Island Countries....
View ArticleFacilitated Patient Feedback Can Improve Nursing Care: A Pilot Study for a...
This randomized trials was conducted to test the effectiveness of patient feedback on quality improvement of nursing care in English hospitals. [adapted from abstract]
View ArticleQuality of Intrapartum Care at Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda:...
The study contributes to quality improvement programs responsible for accelerating reduction of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in Uganda. It documents and informs clinicians, hospital...
View ArticleAssociation between Health Worker Motivation and Healthcare Quality Efforts...
This paper addresses indicators of health worker motivation and assesses associations with quality care and patient safety in Ghana. The aim is to identify interventions at the health worker level that...
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