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SUBMITTER: Mallick L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6555515 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mallick Lindsay L Temsah Gheda G Wang Wenjuan W
PloS one 20190607 6
Measuring quality of care in family planning services is essential for policymakers and stakeholders. However, there is limited agreement on which mathematical approaches are best able to summarize quality of care. Our study used data from recent Service Provision Assessment surveys in Haiti, Malawi, and Tanzania to compare three methods commonly used to create summary indices of quality of care-a simple additive, a weighted additive that applies equal weights among domains, and principal compon ...[more]