Too complicated for the field? Measuring quality of care in humanitarian aid settings

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kersten, Roland ^a   Bosse, Götz ^b   Dörner, Frank ^c   Slavuckij, Andrej ^d   Fernandez, Gustavo ^d   Marx, Michael ^e  

^a Independent International Health Consultant   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Mé decins Sans Frontières   (Germany)

^d Mé decins Sans Frontières   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment; Developing countries; Evaluation; Health; Health care; Humanitarian; Low income; Process; quality; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RELIEF WORK; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUDAN; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HUMANITARIAN; LOW-INCOME; PROCESS; QUALITY; QUALITY OF CARE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RELIEF WORK; SUDAN;

ASSESSMENT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EVALUATION; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HUMANITARIAN; LOW-INCOME; PROCESS; QUALITY; QUALITY OF CARE;

EID: 84886263277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.20311     Document Type: Review

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