Quality of Sick Child-Care Delivered by Community Health Workers in Tanzania
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Assessing the Quality of Sick Child Care Provided by Community Health Workers
BACKGROUND As community case management of childhood illness expands in low-income countries, there is a need to assess the quality of care provided by community health workers. This study had the following objectives: 1) examine methods of recruitment of sick children for assessment of quality of care, 2) assess the validity of register review (RR) and direct observation only (DO) compared to ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Policy and Management
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2322-5939
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2018.63