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Crossing the quality chasm in resource-limited settings

Overview of attention for article published in Globalization and Health, November 2012
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Title
Crossing the quality chasm in resource-limited settings
Published in
Globalization and Health, November 2012
DOI 10.1186/1744-8603-8-41
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Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru, Jason Andrews, Dan Schwarz, Ryan Schwarz, Bibhav Acharya, Astha Ramaiya, Gregory Karelas, Ruma Rajbhandari, Kedar Mate, Sona Shilpakar

Abstract

Over the last decade, extensive scientific and policy innovations have begun to reduce the "quality chasm"--the gulf between best practices and actual implementation that exists in resource-rich medical settings. While limited data exist, this chasm is likely to be equally acute and deadly in resource-limited areas. While health systems have begun to be scaled up in impoverished areas, scale-up is just the foundation necessary to deliver effective healthcare to the poor. This perspective piece describes a vision for a global quality improvement movement in resource-limited areas. The following action items are a first step toward achieving this vision: 1) revise global health investment mechanisms to value quality; 2) enhance human resources for improving health systems quality; 3) scale up data capacity; 4) deepen community accountability and engagement initiatives; 5) implement evidence-based quality improvement programs; 6) develop an implementation science research agenda.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
Mexico 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Qatar 1 <1%
Unknown 98 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 29 28%
Other 17 16%
Student > Master 16 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Other 14 13%
Unknown 9 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 49 47%
Social Sciences 15 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 8%
Environmental Science 3 3%
Computer Science 3 3%
Other 12 11%
Unknown 15 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 October 2013.
All research outputs
#6,420,474
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Globalization and Health
#785
of 1,226 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#60,956
of 285,604 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Globalization and Health
#6
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,917 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,226 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.1. This one is in the 35th percentile – i.e., 35% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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