This article reports on the quality of care delivered by private and public providers of primary
health care services in rural and urban India. To measure quality, the study used …

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a growing public health problem associated with significant morbidity
and mortality. Numerous randomized controlled trials of warfarin have conclusively …

Universal health coverage is not a dream for the future. It is already a reality in many
countries; however, without quality health services, it can remain an empty promise. This …

Educational achievement testing is an area of turmoil in the health sciences. Examinations
are a constant source of problems for many teachers, curriculum designers and …

This book and its companion, Skills for Communicating with Patients, Second Edition,
provide a comprehensive approach to improving communication in medicine. Fully updated …

ContextBetter health care quality is a universal goal, yet measuring quality has proven to be
difficult and problematic. A central problem has been isolating physician practices from other …

We present unique audit-study evidence on health care quality in rural India, and find that
most private providers lacked medical qualifications, but completed more checklist items …

Background: Worldwide efforts are under way to improve the quality of clinical practice. Most
quality measurements, however, are poorly validated, expensive, and difficult to compare …

Objective This paper aims to describe current views of the relationship between competence
and performance and to delineate some of the implications of the distinctions between the …

Competency-based education (CBE) is a concept, a philosophy, and an approach to
educational design where learner progression occurs when competency is demonstrated. It …