31.01.2016

Workshop Summary

Improving quality of care in low- and middle-income countries

Swiss TPH USAID missions and many other organisations spending on quality improvement, would welcome more information about how different strategies work to improve quality, when and where certain tools are most effective, and the best ways to measure success and shortcomings. To gain a better understanding of the evidence supporting different quality improvement tools and clarity on how they would help advance the global quality improvement agenda, the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened a 2-day workshop in January 2015 in Washington. (...)

Contributions were compiled in the book: Buckley, G. J., Pittluck, R. E. 2015. Improving Quality of Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Workshop Summary, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington.