Quality and Accountability in Health Care Delivery: Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India.

Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery Audit Evidence from Primary Care Providers in India

Quality and Accountability in Health: Audit Evidence from Primary Care Clinics in India

Private primary care providers routinely account for more than 50 percent of first-contacts in lowincome settings, rising to 80 percent in countries like India. The majority of these providers operate in single provider clinics with little regulatory oversight or government subsidies. No patients have health insurance beyond the free care that they can access in the public sector. Doctors in pu...

مراقبت ارزش محور و ضرورت ارزیابی اقتصادی خدمات پرستاری

Economic evaluation is an invaluable and important tool in healthcare decision- and policy-making. The volume-based paradigm has been a prominent tool to evaluate healthcare economy for consecutive decades. In this approach, the main focus is on volume of treated patients alongside to reduce healthcare costs. Despite this view and during recent years, there was a dramatic rising in healthcare c...

Required Structures for Family Physician Program to Achieving Service Quality Dimensions in Primary Health Care: a systematic review

Background and Aim: In recent years, the family physician plan has been implemented as a main strategy of health system in Iran. Therefore, the necessity to reform organizational structure based on experiences of other countries is felt more than before. The aim of this study was to explore required structures of Family Physician Program to achieve service quality dimensions in Primary Health c...

Primary care groups in the United Kingdom: quality and accountability.

With the introduction of primary care groups (PCGs), the British National Health Service has attempted to integrate delivery, finance, and quality improvement into a locally directed care system with a strong sense of community accountability. PCGs will eventually hold the budgets for primary care, specialist, hospital, and community-based services and have the flexibility to reapportion these ...