Monitoring the ability to deliver care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of health facility assessment tools

Conclusions Not only do a large number of health facility assessment tools exist, but the data they collect and methods they employ are very different. This certainly limits the comparability of the data between different countries’ health systems and probably creates blind spots that impede efforts to strengthen those systems. Agreement is needed on the essential elements of health facility assessments to guide the development of specific indicators and for refining existing instruments.

Source: Health Policy and Planning - May 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Nickerson, J. W., Adams, O., Attaran, A., Hatcher-Roberts, J., Tugwell, P. Tags: Reviews Source Type: research