Table 2 Summary of instruments by service and location
From: Protocol for the evaluation of a quality-based pay for performance scheme in Liberia
Service | Location | Intensive evaluation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Direct observation | Competence/capacity | Exit interview | ||
Obstetrics | ||||
Routine delivery | Labor ward | Labor and delivery | Partograph case study A | Maternal and neonatal care exit interview |
Partograph case study B | ||||
Complicated delivery (PPH, sepsis, eclampsia) | Delivery room | PPH simulation | ||
Routine newborn care | Preeclampsia simulation | |||
Newborn asphyxia | Newborn health vignette | |||
Newborn asphyxia vignette | ||||
Newborn resuscitation | ||||
Post-delivery monitoring and discharge | Recovery ward | Labor and delivery recovery | ||
Pediatrics | ||||
Routine pediatric care | Outpatient clinic | Pediatric fever, cough, diarrhea | Pediatric diarrhea vignette | Pediatric exit interview |
Pediatric fever vignette | ||||
Pediatric cough vignette | ||||
Referred and emergency pediatric | Emergency intake | Pediatric fever, cough, diarrhea | Pediatric diarrhea vignette | |
Pediatric fever vignette | ||||
Pediatric cough vignette | ||||
Pediatric or general ward | Pediatric inpatient monitoring | |||
Emergency, inpatient, surgery | ||||
Adult triage and emergency consultation | Emergency intake (nurse or MD) | Hernia A | General emergency and triage exit interview | |
Hernia B | ||||
Small-bowel obstruction A | ||||
Small-bowel obstruction B | ||||
First-degree burn | ||||
Cholecystitis | ||||
Appendicitis | ||||
Consultation (MD) | Hernia A | |||
Hernia B | ||||
Small-bowel obstruction A | ||||
Small-bowel obstruction B | ||||
First-degree burn | ||||
Third-degree burn | ||||
Cholecystitis | ||||
Appendicitis | ||||
Hospital ward | Post-surgical care and general ward | |||
Surgery | Surgical prep ward | Surgery | ||
Operating theater | ||||
Recovery ward | Post-surgical care | |||
OR cleanup | Post-surgical cleanup | |||
Facility | ||||
Staff | Facility staff roster | Staff motivation survey | ||
Infrastructure | Facility equipment survey | |||