Quality of care plays an important role in the status of tuberculosis (TB) control, by influencing timely diagnosis, treatment adherence, and treatment completion. In this study, we aimed at establishing the quality of TB service care in Kamuli district health care centres using Donabedian structure, process, and outcomes model of health care. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 8 health c...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the structure, process and results of the Capillary Blood Glucose Self-monitoring Program in a Brazilian city. METHOD Epidemiological, cross-sectional study. The methodological framework of Donabedian was used to construct indicators of structure, process and outcome. A random sample (n = 288) of users enrolled and 96 health professionals who worked in the program was st...

INTRODUCTION The existence of maternal health service does not guarantee its use by women; neither does the use of maternal health service guarantee optimal outcomes for women. The World Health Organization recommends monitoring and evaluation of maternal satisfaction to improve the quality and efficiency of health care during childbirth. Thus, this study aimed at assessing maternal satisfactio...

Introduction: Suitable communication skills in pre-delivery cares are important due to the effect on the extent of anxiety and to better understand the training given. Objective: This study was conducted with the aim of determining the communication skills of health personnel during delivery of pre prenatal care. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study with analytical type was perfo...

هدف: هدف تحقیق، تدوین الگوی پیاده­‌سازی راهبردهای اداره کل ورزش و جوانان استان گلستان در حوزه­‌ی سالمندان با روش کارت امتیازی متوازن می­‌باشد.طراحی/ روش‌شناسی/ رویکرد: پژوهش کاربردی به شیوه­‌ی توصیفی است نوع داده‌­ها آمیخته می­‌باشد. مفهومی تحقیق بر اساس مدل کاپلان نورتن جامعه­‌ی آماری بخش کمّی مدیران کل، مسئولین هیأت ورزش­‌های همگانی اساتید دانشگاه بالغ 44 نفر بودند نمونه­‌گیری تمام­‌شمار انجام...

The objective was to identify factors related to antenatal care (ANC) procedures and information reported by women in Long An, Ben Tre, and Quang Ngai Provinces. Cross-sectional surveys were conducted. Women who had ANC during a previous pregnancy were asked if they had received any of 13 procedures and information. The Donabedian quality of health model was used to select potential related fac...

BACKGROUND Clinicians, nurses, and managers in hospitals are continuously confronted by new technologies and methods that require changes to working practice. Quality systems can help to manage change while maintaining a high quality of care. A new model of quality systems inspired by the works of Donabedian has three factors: structure (resources and administration), process (culture and profe...

Background. Ensuring patient satisfaction is an important means of secondary prevention of maternal mortality. This study presents findings from a multidimensional study of client satisfaction from the Gamo Gofa Zone in Southwest Ethiopia. Methods. A facility based cross-sectional study using exit interviews was conducted from 2014. Client satisfaction was measured using a survey adopted from t...

Health care demands have increased dramatically in recent decades. With the introduction of major changes in the management of health problems, health care costs have spiralled. Today, in the interests of cost control, medicine is geared towards outpatient care whenever possible.In this process, the medical community has been obliged to adapt its traditional criteria to the dictates of national...

BACKGROUND Globally, health-care systems and organizations are looking to improve health system performance through the implementation of a person-centred care (PCC) model. While numerous conceptual frameworks for PCC exist, a gap remains in practical guidance on PCC implementation. METHODS Based on a narrative review of the PCC literature, a generic conceptual framework was developed in coll...