Beyond health system contact: measuring and validating quality of childbirth care indicators in primary level facilities of northern Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Measurement of quality of health care has been largely overlooked and continues to be a major health system bottleneck in monitoring performance and quality to evaluate progress against defined targets for better decision making. Hence, metrics of maternity care are needed to advance from health service contact alone to content of care. We assessed the accuracy of indicators that describe the quality of basic care for childbirth functions both at the individual level as well as at the population level in Northern Ethiopia.

Methods

A validation study was conducted by comparing women's self-reported coverage of maternal and newborn health interventions during intra-partum and immediate postpartum care received in primary level care facilities of Northern Ethiopia ag

SUBMITTER: Weldearegay HG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7247130 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature