MCHIP Technical Summary: Quality of Care


Publish Date: June 2014
Author: MCHIP
Language: English


This paper highlights five key quality measurement and improvement approaches and tools developed and/or used in MCHIP’s work:

  • Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R) for quality improvement (QI) of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) services
  • Quality of care health facility assessments for measurement of the quality of facility-based maternal and newborn health (MNH) services
  • Regular Appraisal of Program Implementation in a District (RAPID) for QI of immunization services
  • Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) toolkit for defining, measuring, and improving maternity care from a client perspective
  • Community-inclusive approaches for QI of reproductive RMNCH services, specifically: Partnership Defined Quality (PDQ) and Client-Oriented Provider Efficient (COPE) services

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