Effect of pay for performance to improve quality of maternal and child care in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Das, Ashis ^a,b   Gopalan, Saji S ^a   Chandramohan, Daniel ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

Low and middle income countries; Maternal and child health; Pay for performance; Quality of healthcare

Indexed keywords

BURUNDI; CHECKLIST; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; EGYPT; EMBASE; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MEDLINE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PHILIPPINES; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRENATAL CARE; REGISTRATION; RWANDA; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEB OF SCIENCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REIMBURSEMENT; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE;

EID: 84963814114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-2982-4     Document Type: Article

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