Quality of care in integrated community case management services in Bugoye, Uganda: a retrospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Village health workers (VHWs) in five villages in Bugoye subcounty (Kasese District, Uganda) provide integrated community case management (iCCM) services, in which VHWs evaluate and treat malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhoea in children under 5 years of age. VHWs use a "Sick Child Job Aid" that guides them through the evaluation and treatment of these illnesses. A retrospective observational study was conducted to measure the quality of iCCM care provided by 23 VHWs in 5 villages in Bugoye subcounty over a 2-year period.

Methods

Patient characteristics and clinical services were summarized using existing aggregate programme data. Lot quality assurance sampling of individual patient records was used to estimate adherence to the iCCM algorithm, VHW-level quality (based

SUBMITTER: Miller JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6389111 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature