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ArticleAfrican journal of primary health care & family medicine2014

African primary care research: quality improvement cycles.

Claire van Deventer, Bob Mash

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Article in African journal of primary health care & family medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Telehealth in South Africa: A guide for healthcare practitioners in primary care.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2022
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  3. Article
  4. The ability of primary healthcare clinics to provide quality diabetes care: An audit.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2019
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  6. Improving diabetic foot screening at a primary care clinic: A quality improvement project.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Claire van DeventerDepartment of Family Medicine and Rural Health, University of the Witwatersrand. cvandeventer@nwpg.gov.za.
Bob Mash

Funding

PEPFARPHS HHS T84HA21652
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Improving the quality of clinical care and translating evidence into clinical practice is commonly a focus of primary care research. This article is part of a series on primary care research and outlines an approach to performing a quality improvement cycle as part of a research assignment at a Masters level. The article aims to help researchers design their quality improvement cycle and write their research project proposal.

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Biomedical ResearchPrimary Health CareQuality ImprovementAfricaHumansQuality Indicators, Health CareQuality of Health CareResearch DesignWriting

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PMID26245438
PMCPMC4502901

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