Quality assurance and quality improvement using supportive supervision in a large-scale STI intervention with sex workers, men who have sex with men/transgenders and injecting-drug users in India

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 86, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Mogasale, Vittal ^a,b   Wi, Teodora C ^a,c   Das, Anjana ^a   Kane, Sumit ^a,d   Singh, Aman Kumar ^a,e   George, Bitra ^a   Steen, Richard ^c  

^a FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; INDIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSSEXUALISM;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PROSTITUTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 77949708697     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2009.038364     Document Type: Article

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