Internal consistency and reliability of Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCATool-Brasil) for child health services;Consistência interna e confiabilidade da versão em português do Instrumento de Avaliação da Atenção Primária (PCATool-Brasil) para serviços de saúde infantil

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1649-1659

  Harzheim, Erno ^a   Starfield, Barbara ^b   Rajmil, Luis ^c   Álvarez Dardet, Carlos ^d   Stein, Airton T ^e,f  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE CIÊNCIAS DA SAÚDE DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSIDADE LUTERANA DO BRASIL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Health Services; Primary Health Care; Services Evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

BRAZIL; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 33745838614     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0102-311X2006000800013     Document Type: Article

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