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The efficiency of chronic disease care in sub-Saharan Africa

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Title
The efficiency of chronic disease care in sub-Saharan Africa
Published in
BMC Medicine, August 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12916-016-0675-6
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Pascal Geldsetzer, Katrina Ortblad, Till Bärnighausen

Abstract

The number of people needing chronic disease care is projected to increase in sub-Saharan Africa as a result of expanding human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment coverage, rising life expectancies, and lifestyle changes. Using nationally representative data of healthcare facilities, Di Giorgio et al. found that many HIV clinics in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia appear to have considerable untapped capacity to provide care for additional patients. These findings highlight the potential for increasing the efficiency of clinical processes for chronic disease care at the facility level. Important questions for future research are how estimates of comparative technical efficiency across facilities change, when they are adjusted for quality of care and the composition of patients by care complexity. Looking ahead, substantial research investment will be needed to ensure that we do not forgo the opportunity to learn how efficiency changes, as chronic care is becoming increasingly differentiated by patient type and integrated across diseases and health systems functions.Please see related article: http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-016-0653-z.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Cameroon 1 1%
Unknown 76 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 19%
Student > Master 15 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 12%
Student > Bachelor 7 9%
Other 5 6%
Other 8 10%
Unknown 18 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 18 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 6%
Social Sciences 4 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Other 12 16%
Unknown 21 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 31 August 2016.
All research outputs
#15,386,387
of 24,855,923 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#3,208
of 3,866 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#198,326
of 346,397 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#41
of 47 outputs
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