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Using the behavior change wheel to identify barriers to and potential solutions for primary care clinical guideline use in four provinces in South Africa
BACKGROUND: Clinical practice guidelines risk having little impact on healthcare if not effectively implemented. Theory informed, targeted implementation may maximise …
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Impact of Xpert MTB/RIF and decentralized care on linkage to care and drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Johannesburg, South Africa
BACKGROUND: In 2011, South Africa improved its ability to test for rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) by introducing GeneXpert MTB/RIF. At the …
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Pharmacy-based hypertension care employing mHealth in Lagos, Nigeria – a mixed methods feasibility study
BACKGROUND: Access to quality hypertension care is often poor in sub-Saharan Africa. Some community pharmacies offer hypertension monitoring services, with …
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Assessment of cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge and skills among healthcare providers at an urban tertiary referral hospital in Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Early and effective CPR increases both survival rate and post-arrest quality of life. In limited resource countries like Tanzania, …
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Standardized outcome measures for pregnancy and childbirth, an ICHOM proposal
BACKGROUND: Value-based health care aims to optimize the balance of patient outcomes and health care costs. To improve value in …
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Association between patient-reported HIV status and provider recommendation for screening in an opportunistic cervical Cancer screening setting in Jos, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer screening (CCS) is an important health service intervention for prevention of morbidity and mortality from invasive cervical …
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Using an action learning methodology to develop skills of health managers: experiences from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Strong management skills are key to improving performance of health systems. Action learning, a technique to develop management skills, …
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Patients’ perspectives of acceptability of ART, TB and maternal health services in a subdistrict of Johannesburg, South Africa
BACKGROUND: The field of acceptability of health services is emerging and growing in coherence. But there are gaps, including relatively …
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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 …