Evaluating health worker performance in Benin using the simulated client method with real children

Implementation Science

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rowe, Alexander K ^a   Onikpo, Faustin ^b   Lama, Marcel ^c   Deming, Michael S ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Ministry of Public Health   (Benin)

^c Africare Benin ^*  (Benin)

Author keywords

Benin; Child health; Developing country; Health services research; Integrated management of childhood illness; Methods; Simulated clients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIN; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STANDARD; TEACHING;

ADULT; BENIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATIENT SIMULATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84867086643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-7-95     Document Type: Article

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