Effectiveness of strategies to improve health-care provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inadequate health-care provider performance is a major challenge to the delivery of high-quality health care in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Health Care Provider Performance Review (HCPPR) is a comprehensive systematic review of strategies to improve health-care provider performance in LMICs.

Methods

For this systematic review we searched 52 electronic databases for published studies and 58 document inventories for unpublished studies from the 1960s to 2016. Eligible study designs were controlled trials and interrupted time series. We only included strategy-versus-control group comparisons. We present results of improving health-care provider practice outcomes expressed as percentages (eg, percentage of patients treated correctly) or as cont

SUBMITTER: Rowe AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6185992 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature