Global core indicators for measuring WHO's paediatric quality-of-care standards in health facilities: development and expert consensus.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are currently no global recommendations on a parsimonious and robust set of indicators that can be measured routinely or periodically to monitor quality of hospital care for children and young adolescents. We describe a systematic methodology used to prioritize and define a core set of such indicators and their metadata for progress tracking, accountability, learning and improvement, at facility, (sub) national, national, and global levels.

Methods

We used a deductive methodology which involved the use of the World Health Organization Standards for improving the quality-of-care for children and young adolescents in health facilities as the organizing framework for indicator development. The entire process involved 9 complementary steps which included: a rapi

SUBMITTER: Muzigaba M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9270792 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature