SynthesisThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020
Variability in Health Care Quality Measurement among Studies Using Service Provision Assessment Data from Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of reviews.BMJ global health · 2023Pooled it
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- Specific service readiness for sick child health services and its relationship with quality of care and user experience in eight low-and middle-income countries.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Bridging the diagnostic gap: diagnostic capacity and pediatric quality of care in LMICs.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in ankylosing spondylitis: a multi national meta-analysis study.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2025Review
- A small area model to assess temporal trends and sub-national disparities in healthcare quality.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Preventing, but Not Caring for, Adolescent Pregnancies? Disparities in the Quality of Reproductive Health Care in Sub-Saharan Africa.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2022Article
- Defining, conceptualizing, and measuring perceived maternal care quality in low- to high-income countries: a scoping review protocol.Systematic reviews · 2021Article
- Digital health capacity and pediatric care quality in LMICs: A large-scale analysis of 5311 health facilities.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
Quality of care is essential for improving health outcomes, but heterogeneity in theoretical frameworks and metrics can limit studies' generalizability and comparability. This research aimed to compare definitions of care quality across research articles that incorporate data from Service Provision Assessment (SPA) surveys. Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis guidelines, we used a keyword search in PubMed. Each author reviewed abstracts, then full texts, for inclusion criteria, and peer-reviewed publications of empirical analysis using SPA data. The search yielded 3,250 unique abstracts, and 34 publications were included in the final analysis. We extracted details on the SPA dataset(s) used, theoretical framework applied, and how care quality was operationalized. The 34 included articles used SPA data from 14 surveys in nine countries (all in sub-Saharan Africa plus Haiti). One-third of these articles (
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