Monitoring the referral system through benchmarking in rural Niger: An evaluation of the functional relation between health centres and the district hospital

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bossyns, Paul ^a   Abache, Ranaou ^b   Abdoulaye, Mahaman S ^b   Miyé, Hamidou ^b   Depoorter, Anne Marie ^c   Van Lerberghe, Wim ^d  

^a Belgian Technical Cooperation   (Belgium)

^b Ministry of Health   (Niger)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORTALITY; NIGER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RURAL AREA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BENCHMARKING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HUMANS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NIGER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 33646399747     PISSN: 14726963     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-6-51     Document Type: Article

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