Patient-Centered Care and Process Quality (PCPQ)
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Investigator: Dominic Montagu, DrPH
Sponsor: David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Location(s): Kenya; India
Description
Partnering with three hospitals in central Kenya and six in Uttar Pradesh, India, to develop a metric measuing the effectiveness of interventions through use of adherence, to procedures and refinement of delivery.
Project activities include:
- Develop and validate culturally appropriate measures of person-centered quality for delivery, family planning, and abortion services
- Collect baseline person-centered measures of women¹s experiences associated with seeking and receiving health care
- Conduct facility-level observations and in-depth interviews with women and providers to understand barriers to care
- Implement, monitor and evaluate quality improvement cycles to determine which locally-generated initiatives can be adapted and scaled to other facilities