Article 2: Longitudinal study assessing the one-year effects of supervision performance assessment and recognition strategy (SPARS) to improve medicines management in Uganda health facilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In late 2010, Uganda introduced a supervision, performance assessment, and recognition strategy (SPARS) to improve staff capacity in medicines management in government and private not-for-profit health facilities. This paper assesses the impact of SPARS in health facilities during their first year of supervision.

Methods

SPARS uses health workers trained as Medicines Management Supervisors (MMS) to supervise health facilities and address issues identified through indicatorbased performance assessment in five domains: stock management, storage management, ordering and reporting, prescribing quality, and dispensing quality. We used routine data generated during SPARS visits to 1222 health facilities to evaluate performance changes during the first year of supervisio

SUBMITTER: Trap B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6033200 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature