Health care provider time in public primary care facilities in Lima, Peru: a cross-sectional time motion study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Peru, a majority of individuals bypass primary care facilities even for routine services. Efforts to strengthen primary care must be informed by understanding of current practice. We conducted a time motion assessment in primary care facilities in Lima with the goals of assessing the feasibility of this method in an urban health care setting in Latin America and of providing policy makers with empirical evidence on the use of health care provider time in primary care.

Methods

This cross-sectional continuous observation time motion study took place from July - September 2019. We used two-stage sampling to draw a sample of shifts for doctors, nurses, and midwives in primary health facilities and applied the Work Observation Method by Activity Timing tool to captu

SUBMITTER: Leslie HH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7865111 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature