Effectiveness of strategies to improve health-care provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2018, Pages e1163-e1175

  Rowe, Alexander K ^a   Rowe, Samantha Y ^a,b   Peters, David H ^c   Holloway, Kathleen A ^d,e,f   Chalker, John ^g   Ross Degnan, Dennis ^h  

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

^b CDC FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e Institute of Health Management Research   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^g MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH   (United States)

^h HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; FUNDING; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCIENTIST; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85055077112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30398-X     Document Type: Article

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