Management Practices and Quality of Care: Evidence from the Private Health Care Sector in Tanzania.

ABSTRACT: We measure the adoption of management practices in over 220 private for-profit and non-profit health facilities in 64 districts across Tanzania and link these data to process quality-of-care metrics, assessed using undercover standardised patients and clinical observations. We find that better managed health facilities are more likely to provide correct treatment in accordance with national treatment guidelines, adhere to a checklist of essential questions and examinations, and comply with infection prevention and control practices. Moving from the 10th to the 90th percentile in the management practice score is associated with a 48% increase in correct treatment. We then leverage a large-scale field experiment of an internationally recognised management support intervention in which health

SUBMITTER: Powell-Jackson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10702364 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature