Development of summary indices of antenatal care service quality in Haiti, Malawi and Tanzania.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Measuring quality of care in low-income and middle-income countries is complicated by the lack of a standard, universally accepted definition for 'quality' for any particular service, as well as limited guidance on which indicators to include in measures of quality of care, and how to incorporate those indicators into summary indices. The aim of this paper is to develop, characterise and compare a set of antenatal care (ANC) indices for facility readiness and provision of care.

Methods

We created nine indices for facility readiness using three methods for selecting items and three methods for combining items. In addition, we created three indices for provision of care using one method for selecting items and three methods for combining items. For each index, we

SUBMITTER: Sheffel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7003378 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature