Peer-driven quality improvement among health workers and traditional birth attendants in Sierra Leone: Linkages between providers' organizational skills and relationships

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 15, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Higgins Steele, Ariel ^a   Waller, Kathryn ^b   Fotso, Jean Christophe ^b   Vesel, Linda ^c  

^a UNICEF   (United States)

^b Newborn and Child Health Initiative   (United States)

^c UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Health workforce; peer groups; quality improvement; Sierra Leone; traditional birth attendants (TBAs)

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COWORKER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; PEER GROUP; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SIERRA LEONE; SKILL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFE; NEWBORN; NURSE MIDWIFE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWIFERY; NURSE MIDWIVES; PREGNANCY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SIERRA LEONE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978077086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-15-S1-S4     Document Type: Article

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