Global Health Council 37th Annual Conference: Dateline 2010: Global Health Goals

Presenters Discuss:
how consistent use of data by frontline providers to track their performance can improve data quality and how leadership attention and data feedback to frontline providers make providers more conscious about data quality (Ghana); improvements in quality of data reported by primary health care facilities achieved due to the implementation of a performance improvement process (Pakistan); lessons learned about the potential for large scale deployment of phone based information systems for community health workers (Tanzania); and quality care for patients in terms of eliminating gaps, time series plots to graph the results, Gaps Analysis Framework to identify the quality gaps, causes of gaps and Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycles (PDSA's) to bridge the gaps (Global).